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A WELL-KNOWN SPEAKER STARTED OFF HIS SEMINAR BY HOLDING UP A $20 BILL. INTHE ROOM OF 200, HE ASKED, WHO WOULD LIKE THIS $20 BILL? HANDS STARTED GOINGUP. HE SAID, I AM GOING TO GIVE THIS TO ONE OF YOU, BUT FIRST, LET ME DOTHIS. HE PROCEEDED TO CRUMPLE THE BILL UP. HE THEN ASKED, WHO STILL WANTSIT? STILL THE HANDS WERE UP IN THE AIR. WELL, HE REPLIED, WHAT IF I DO THIS?HE DROPPED IT ON THE GROUND, AND STARTED TO GRIND IT INTO THE FLOOR WITH HISSHOE. HE PICKED IT UP, NOW CRUMPLED AND DIRTY. NOW, WHO STILL WANTS IT?STILL HANDS WENT INTO THE AIR. MY FRIENDS, YOU ALL HAVE LEARNED A VERYVALUABLE LESSON. NO MATTER WHAT I DID TO THE MONEY, YOU STILL WANTED IT,BECAUSE, IT DID NOT DECREASE IN VALUE. IT WAS STILL WORTH 20 DOLLARS. MANYTIMES IN OUR LIVES, WE ARE DROPPED, CRUMPLED AND GROUND INTO THE DIRT BY THEDECISIONS WE MAKE AND THE CIRCUMSTANCES THAT COME OUR WAY. WE FEEL THAT WEARE WORTHLESS, BUT, NO MATTER WHAT HAS HAPPENED OR WHAT WILL HAPPEN, YOUWILL NEVER LOSE YOUR VALUE, DIRTY OR CLEAN, CRUMPLED OR FINELY CREASED, YOUARE STILL PRICELESS TO THOSE WHO LOVE YOU. THE WORTH OF OUR LIVES COME NOTIN WHAT WE DO, OR WHO WE KNOW, BUT, BY WHO WE ARE. YOU ARE SPECIAL, DON'TEVER FORGET IT! PASS THIS ON TO THOSE YOU CARE ABOUT. YOU WILL NEVER KNOW THE LIVES ITTOUCHES, THE HURTING HEARTS IT SPEAKS TO, OR THE HOPE THAT IT CAN BRING.ALWAYS COUNT YOUR BLESSINGS, NOT YOUR PROBLEMS