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*The Secret* 1/3/02 _______________________ If you enjoy this free daily email service, I encourage you to spread the word to family and friends that we may bring inspiration into the lives of many! If you are not on the list and this has been passed along to you, join the thousands of HeartTouchers.com readers around the world by sending an e-mail with the word "Subscribe" in the subject line to: HeartTouchers@aol.com Visit our inspirational web site and read all the past stories in our archives at: http://www.HeartTouchers.com ____________________________________________ Happy New Year from HeartTouchers.com From now on we will be offering our book, Straight From the Heart "A Celebration of Life" for only $13 (instead of the regular price of $14.95), and best of all, we will pay the shipping! So if you have any interest in purchasing an autographed copy of the book for yourself, or as a gift for your loved ones, now is the time to get it! To order your autographed copy send a check or money order for $13 (We pay the shipping!) for each book made out to Michael T. Powers, and then send it to: Michael T. Powers 1918 Liberty Lane Janesville, WI 53545 To preview the book by reading some of the stories visit: http://www.HeartTouchers.com/michael_t__powers/ AOL Users Click below: Straight From the Heart: A Celebration of Life _________________________________________ Regular contributor and Heart Touchers favorite, Roger Dean Kiser, Sr., shares a secret with all of us today... Some secrets are better left unknown... Thank you Roger, for sharing your heart touching stories with us! From my family to yours, Michael _________________________________________ The Secret By Roger Dean Kiser, Sr. I cannot honestly say that there was ever a time that I went hungry when I lived in that orphanage in Jacksonville, Florida. I mean, I wish there had been more to eat at times, and there were times when my stomach sure growled a lot at nighttime. One day our second grade class at Spring Park School was release early because of a fire drill. As I walked back to the orphanage, about a block away from the school, I saw a woman standing on her front lawn eating a sandwich. I stopped and stood there looking at her. "Can I help you?" She asked me. "Just looking at that sandwich," I replied. "Would you like a sandwich?" She asked me. "Yes, Ma'am. I guess," I said. She walked back into the her house and within a minute had come back out holding a sandwich in her hand. "Here," she said, handing me the sandwich. I raised the sandwich to my mouth and I took a bite. I could feel my eyes roll back into my head as I tasted the wonderful treat. "This is very good. What is it?" I asked her. "It is a meat sandwich," she told me. "We don't get much meat at the Children's Home Orphanage," I told her. "If you ever get hungry for meat you can come by here," she told me, as she walked back into her house and closed the door. I slowly walked back to the orphanage eating the sandwich and making sure that my mouth was clean so that no one would know that I had eaten a meat thing. The next day after school I once again walked by her house to see if she was there. Sure enough she saw me and invited me in to eat another meat sandwich. As I sat at her dining room table I noticed that she had a large black bird locked in a cage at the far end of the room. "Is that a big, black eagle bird?" I asked her. "No. That is a talking crow," She told me. "Birds can't talk." I told her, wrinkling up my forehead in amazement. "Oh yes they can," she advised me. "How can birds talk like human being people?" I asked her. "You just have to say the exact same things to them. Over, and over, and over every day and that is how they learn to talk," she said. Everyday for almost for six months I would come by her house to eat a meat sandwich before returning to the orphanage. When I would knock on her door she would always say, "Just a moment. I am covering the bird cage." All the times that I went there I never did hear that bird ever speak a single word. When I asked her why the bird would never talk she told me that birds would not speak when their cage was covered with a cloth. One day I came by her house and I knocked on her door, but no one answered. Slowly I opened the door and I called out to her. Again no one answered. I slowly walked into the kitchen and I saw a meat sandwich sitting on the table. Beside the sandwich was a note telling me that she could not be there. That I was to eat the sandwich and then lock her door when I left. After I finished my sandwich I put my plate in the sink and started toward the front door. As I turned back around to see if I had cut off the kitchen light I saw the covered bird cage in the living room. Slowly I walked over to the cage and I peeked underneath the cloth. Suddenly the cloth fell from the cage and onto the floor. The large black bird started jumping up and down, it's wings throwing bird seed in every direction. My little heart was beating ninety miles and hour, inside my chest. All of a sudden the bird just stopped dead in it's tracks and screamed, at the top of it's voice, "There's that darn kid again. There's that darn kid again." I grabbed the cloth and threw it back over the bird cage as fast as I could and then I ran out the front door. When I got outside I looked all around real, real good. But I didn't see no darn kid. Roger Dean Kiser, Sr. trampolineone@webtv.net Write Roger and let him know your thoughts on his story! __________________ The Sad Orphan Web Site http://www.geocities.com/trampolineone/ Roger and his wife, Judy, also a writer, live in Brunswick, Georgia. As a child Roger was raised in a very abusive orphanage located in Jacksonville Florida. He has written a book titled "Orphan" which tells of the horrors that he and other children suffered daily, for more than ten years. His book is in all major bookstores and available through his web site/link, for purchase. He now writes and speaks to children in the Georgia School system about child abuse and its effects. In the last two years Roger has developed one of the most read child abuse web sites in the world, "The Sad Orphan" located at: http://www.geocities.com/trampolineone which displays many of his short stories. You can purchase Roger's book, "ORPHAN" in major book stores or order from Amazon.com at: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1580624480/o/qid=975333679/sr=8-1/straighfromthe0a/107-5931457-7011735 AOL Users click here> Orphan If you missed the interview we did with Roger, you can check it out at our web site at this link: http://www.HeartTouchers.com/roger_dean_kiser_sr_/ AOL Users click here _________________________________________ Thought For The Day: "Remember: The mightiest Oak was once a little nut that held its ground." Verse for the Day: "Though your beginning was insignificant, yet your end will increase greatly." --Job 8:7 Toddler's Thought For The Day: "If it is on, I must turn it off. If it is off, I must turn it on." Parent's Thought For The Day: THOMAS EDISON'S MOTHER : "Of course I'm proud that you invented the electric light bulb. Now turn it off and get to bed!" Coach's Thought For The Day: "It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts. -- Addison Walker Writer's Thought For The Day: "It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn." --Robert Southey Deep Thought For The Day: "Want to talk to God? Send Him some kneel-mail." ___________________________________________ REQUESTS: ___________________________________________ _ /_/\/\ MICHAEL T. POWERS \_\ / HeartTouchers@aol.com /_/ \ "For I have been crucified with Christ and I no \_\/\ \ longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I \_\/ live in the body I live for the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me." Galatians 2:20 ___________________________________________ The copyrights to the stories that appear in HeartTouchers.com are owned by the authors and are used with their permission. We refuse to run stories without the author's permission and contact info listed after the story. We also refuse to publish stories listed as "author unknown." 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