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I wrote a little poem
for each one of them.

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Excuse me.

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And they're very short.

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So I'll read both of them.

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The poem for Sherman, who was
the only grandfather I ever

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knew.

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And he was the grandfather
to all of her grandchildren.

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The ideal grandfather.

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Just as he was the
ideal farmer, he

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was president of the ditch
committee and all that.

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And he had been a marksman
in the First World War.

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Everybody respected him.

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Everybody liked him.

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And while he wasn't related by
blood, he was my grandfather.

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And this is the poem for him.

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It's called A Kind Of Glory.

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I'm sorry.

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Years after the neighbors
started using machines,

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grandpa still did the
milking with his small boned

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delicate hands.

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But his cows gave better milk
than any herd in the Valley.

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At night, he danced the
Shcottische with grandma,

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and always put his little foot
right there more gracefully

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than she could manage.

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He smelled of cow manure and
Prince Albert pipe tobacco.

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Women found him irresistible.

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We knew we would never
be famous or anything

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out of the ordinary.

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But for a while after grandpa
dropped his flashlight

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into the outhouse
hole, we had a glory

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that continued to shine
straight up from down there.

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And our most private
moments were illuminated.

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I was thinking about
the illumination,

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which is what they do
in medieval manuscripts.

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That first letter is
often big, and colored,

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and fancy, and with gold on it.

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OK.