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It is important, we old men, must teach young men to skip a stone over water. First you must pick the perfect stone, a stone to love, a solid stone, like a friend or father. It is important you find one that is smooth, encompassing, and flat. A stone with the right feel to fit your hand, a stone you can put your power into. Pick a stone -not for a boy but a man. It is important when you toss it over the lake to keep it flat with the water’s surface, let it roll off your finger tips with ease and never, never make a poignant face. It is important you must make it skip, jump, and plane over the façade, the wet, the stream it does not matter how many times it skips it can be as few as two, as many as nineteen. It is important that you know that the rock you pick will never come back to you. It will skip for a few times then sink; lost forever, the stone you threw. It is important that you learn to skip a rock over water, you must let it go; even if you love it. You can kiss it, miss it, tell it goodbye but to the loss of it -you cannot submit, it is important.
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