7 year old sells origami for Japan relief

Snoutport

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Fri Mar-18-11 03:27 PM
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7 year old sells origami for Japan relief

a snippet of a very nice story:

"The story is-if you make 1,000 cranes, you get to make a wish and that wish will come true," Debbie said.

"I want to make a wish...for Japan to be okay," William added.

http://www.11alive.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=183144

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Lucinda

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Fri Mar-18-11 03:36 PM
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1. Awww. Great story.

Thank you for posting this! :hi:

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Recursion

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Fri Mar-18-11 03:46 PM
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2. Don't tell him what happens to the girl in the story (nt)

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Chris_Texas

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Fri Mar-18-11 03:59 PM
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6. I imagine he knows

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bobbolink

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Fri Mar-18-11 03:53 PM
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3. That is sweet! I was thinking of DU making cranes. I made so many for the Ribbon project

(tying a "ribbon" around the Pentagon for the anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki) that I could fold them in my sleep.

Maybe some of us could do this...?

Maybe someone could post the story of Sadako?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sadako_Sasaki

We had a small version of this monument in the park near the White House, and covered it with cranes.

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Earth_First

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Fri Mar-18-11 03:54 PM
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4. I just made a request for 5 of his paper cranes...

What a noble effort, kudos!

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Godhumor

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Fri Mar-18-11 03:58 PM
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5. Good for them. I lived in Saitama prefecture (incorrectly called a town in the story)

My in-laws live there. Thankfully, it made it through the quake all right.

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