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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=362813" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Level Headed</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(A series of true incidents from my life) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whenever there is a crisis <br>in our family, I am the one <br>who has to be level headed <br>to comfort and console, <br>but when the crisis is over, <br>I am the one who is shaking like a leaf.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The first time I was called upon, <br>was when I was twelve or thirteen. <br>It was to my brother <br>who was brought up by my grandparents. <br>(Though I did not know, <br>he was my brother then) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">My grandparents had just died <br>and Bill was so upset, <br>and it was left to me <br>to console and comfort him. <br>We went for a walk and talked all the while. <br>When we got home, he felt better after that.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One day my youngest son <br>while out collecting <br>a penny for the Guy, <br>dashed across the road <br>straight into the side <br>of a passing car.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was all right, <br>just minor cuts and bruises, <br>but it was left to me <br>to calm down my wife <br>and comfort the driver a bit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Now my eldest son <br>is another case, <br>and what I am about to relate <br>may seem fiction, <br>but it is the truth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was working for a Naval tailors <br>and they use potassium cyanide <br>to clean the gold braid. <br>They kept it in crystal form.<br> <br>When his then girlfriend ditched him, <br>he decided to take some of the cyanide. <br>He diluted it twice, <br>once with water <br>and a second time with tea.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He survived by some miracle, <br>do not ask me how. <br>He just did. <br>While everyone was falling <br>to pieces at the hospital.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was again left to me <br>to stand up and be counted, <br>be level headed again. <br>Of course, when I saw him <br>lying in the hospital bed, <br>I instinctively knew that he would be OK.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My job was to convince everyone <br>of the fact that he would be OK. <br>Happily, I was right <br>and a week later, <br>he came out of hospital.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Today he and his wife <br>have a business of their own. <br>He has several children <br>and a grand daughter Emily May.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As for me, well I still get called <br>for any emergency. <br>I am the calming factor of our family. <br>The one who never loses it <br>when a crisis is around.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>21 February 2008</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Harris">David Harris</a><div class=q>
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Whenever there is a crisis 
in our family, I am the one 
who has to be level headed 
to comfort and console, 
but when the crisis is over, 
I am the one who is shaking like a leaf.

The first time I was ..."></div>
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