Sign in Winchester, Virginia - Intersection of Apple Pie Ridge Road and Caralpa Road

“And as he passed by, he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the receipt of custom, and said unto him, Follow me. And he arose and followed him.” Mark 2:14 KJV
Her father had heard much about the tainted Young Buck and he was not very happy that his daughter was even associating with him. When Levi decided to become a tax collector, I’m sure his father, his family and all his friends’ hearts sank. I got up from my seat and snuck up behind him. Using his radio jingle I asked him if he could help me with my plumbing problem.

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Looking at Fort Sumter (in background) sitting on beach near driftwood

James K. Polk, Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Ulysses S Grant, and Rutherford B. Hayes. These are Presidents eleven through nineteen. Here is a list of how I think I am like them.

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James Buchanan statue at the Visitors Center at Wheatland - Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.

Luke 7:22 KJV

Imagine a world where someone listened so intently to all your spoken words. What if you were to just say something like: “Blah, blah, blah,” and they looked at you like you had the wisdom of Solomon? What if you had one of those really bad days where everything seemed to go wrong and no one would even give you the time of day and you came across this person who just sat there listening to you as you whined and you just sensed they felt your pain? One of the best I’ve ever known at this was Tucker, a sweet little dog we use to have.

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