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Oh, The Places You’ll Go, by Dr. Seuss

I kind of have a thing for Dr. Seuss.  I love his whimsical character and fun rhymes and all the stuff that everyone in America loves about him.  This was never really one of my favorite books- I just thought it was kind of cheesy.

Let me tell you a story:  for my high school graduation, our “guest speaker” was listed as a girl who had graduated from our high school maybe 7 or 8 years earlier, something like that.  We all thought it seemed kind of strange, but figured that maybe she had done something really cool and really had something of importance to say. I am not kidding when I say that during the ceremony, when it was her turn to speak, she got up and said, “Hi, I’m so and so.  I graduated from this same high school and thought it was great.  I’ve brought some words of wisdom from someone much wiser than myself today, so I’ll just let him speak,”  and proceeded to literally read this entire book cover to cover.  She even held up the pictures for the audience like she was reading to a small first grade class instead of a whole auditorium full of people.

I wish that someone had been filming the reactions of my graduating class.  We were all just looking at each other like, “Is this for real?”  Oh, and it was.  She finished the book, closed it, and said “Thank you very much! Good luck to the graduating class.  May you go many places,” or something cheesy like that.

It was hilarious. When I get together with people that I graduated with, it is still something that we laugh about, just because it was so bizarre.  So this book that was always pretty cheesy to me became even cheesier, to the point of being delightful.  It makes me laugh to this day.

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