Bless her Newfie Heart

Little Melissa comes from Chance Cove Newfoundland and attends
>> >>first grade. After school she tells her father that they learned about
>> >>the history of Valentine's Day.

>> >>"Since Valentine's Day is for a Christian saint, I was wondering if
>> >>I gave a Valentine to someone who was not, will God get mad at me
>> for giving them a valentine?"

>> >>Melissa's father thinks a bit, then says "No, I don't think God
>> >>would get mad. Who do you want to give a Valentine to?"
>> >>"Osama Bin Laden," she says.
>> >>"Why Osama Bin Laden," her father asks in shock.
>> >>"Well," she says, "I thought that if a little Newfoundland
>> >>Christian girl could have enough love to give Osama a Valentine, he might
>> >>start to think that maybe we're not all bad, and maybe start loving
>> >>people a little bit. And if other kids saw what I did and sent Valentines
>> to Osama, he'd love everyone a lot. And then he'd start going all over
>> >>the place to tell everyone how much he loved them and how he didn't
>> >>hate anyone anymore."

>> >>Her father's heart swells and he looks at his daughter with
>> >>new-found pride. "Melissa, that's the most wonderful thing I've ever
>> heard."

>> >>"I know," Melissa says, "and once that gets him out in the open,
>> >>our Canadian Soldiers can shoot the ******."