<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=436706" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>How We Learned Our Lessons</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through the living of their lives...<br>That's how we learned our lessons.<br>Through the observation of their sacrifices...<br>That's how we learned our lessons.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And we understood each one of them.<br>With our minds, eyes and ears opened.<br>Through the living of their lives...<br>That's how we learned our lessons.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through the acceptance and loving ourselves.<br>That's how we learned our lessons.<br>Through the giving of respect, <br>We ourselves sometimes did not get! <br>That's how we learned our lessons.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And even though our steps made forward...<br>Were made to believe by others as limited.<br>And sometimes we wept and knew this was negative.<br>It was through the acceptance of who we were, <br>And loving ourselves.<br>That's how we learned our lessons.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And the parents we loved and had, <br>Did not brag about their college degrees! <br>Or 'things' with them we could buy to achieve...<br>To succeed in the repossessing of our minds, <br>Some permit an entry for this to be done! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They were with us all the time, <br>Telling us we could accomplish anything! <br>And could prove that too to ourselves and anyone.<br>'Whatever' it was we chose in our lives to do.<br>And working hard we did...<br>To pursue.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through the living of their lives...<br>That's how we learned our lessons.<br>Through the observation of their sacrifices...<br>That's how we learned our lessons.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dedicated to: <br>Andrea ('Mimmie') , Tammy and Lisa<br>My sisters.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Love you for your 'gifts' given... <br>Edna Pearl Roberts Prudhomme Pertillar<br>And Lawrence Pertillar, Sr.'<br>Our Parents.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">~lsp~</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=436706" data-title="How We Learned Our Lessons de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="Through the living of their lives... That's how we learned our lessons. Through the observation of their sacrifices... That's how we learned our lessons. And we understood each one of them. With our minds, eyes and ears opened. Through the living..."></div> </div> </div>

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