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The Starfish Legend

  As the old man walked on the beach at dawn, he noticed
a young man ahead of him picking up starfish and flinging them
into the sea. Finally catching up with the youth, he asked him
why he was doing this. The answer was that the stranded starfish
would die if left in the morning sun. "But the beach
goes on for miles, and there are millions of starfish,"
countered the man. "How can your effort make any
difference?"

  The young man looked at the starfish in his hand and
then threw it safely into the waves.

 "It makes a difference to this one," he
said.
---Lauren Eisley from "The Star Thrower" |

Kyia and Makenna
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