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Before my son, Paul, left to volunteer in Haiti, he stopped by his kids school to talk about the relief effort in Haiti.  After he had left for Haiti a mother of one of the children called his wife.  She said that her seven year old, Bodie, had come home from school after hearing Dr, Neumann speak and was gathering up his money.  When she asked him what he was doing he replied that he needed five dollars.  When she asked him why he said "because $5.00 can buy antibiotics that could save a life and that  he hadn't saved a life yet.

Priorities made simple.

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