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am grateful to a good friend for presenting me with a three year subscription to your paper . . I have another good friend who is fond of saying that our handicaps become our opportunities. I think that can be made true by any man who has the courage, persistence and vision to make it true. Your handicap has annoyed you plenty, I have no doubt, but the extra effort you must put forth because of it, will undoubtedly pay * you big dividends before the race— is over for you.
“I know this to be true. You sec, when T^was fourteen I could not talk, I stammered so frightfully that I was not permitted to recite in scbool—-it made too much commotion. Then one day I heard a man say that any of us could do anything if we only had faith in ourselves. I believed him. And today I make my living as' a lecturer. You see, I had to learn to talk, and the extra effort to learn carried me much further than I would have gone had I not had the handicap. So I say, ‘Thank God
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