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When he was a little boy his uncle called him “Sparky”, after a comic-strip horse named Spark Plug. School was all but impossible for Sparky. He failed every subject in the eighth grade. He flunked physics in high school, getting a grade of zero. He also flunked Latin, algebra and …

My wife, Tere, and I purchased a new car in December. Even though we had tickets to fly from California to Houston to visit her family for Christmas, we decided to drive to Texas to break in the new car. We packed the car and took off for a wonderful …

It was rainy season in Russia and in a certain village the rain water was flowing in streams in a street. As the rain stopped , two little girls older Akulya and younger Malasha started playing in the street water. It was festival time and they were wearing new frocks. …

There was a blind girl who hated herself for being blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend who was always there for her. She said that if she could only see the world, she would marry her boyfriend. One day she was donated a pair of eyes and she …