Satsuma High School - Cayman Yearbook (Satsuma, AL)

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Death Life is Birth . . . Birth is a beginning, a point of origin, from which a per- son immediately starts to make mistakes and learn, to feel hurt and happiness and to grow influenced by environ- ment and heredity, into a person who lives his life through touching many people and responding. By con- trast, death is not the catastrophic event brutal headlines and melodrama make it. It is but the final earthly phase of the few years of conciousness allowed a person. Death ends what should have been a constructive existence, full of every emotion that exists and completely void of brutality. 4

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Life is Love . . . Hate . . . 3 Love—Hate—Basically they mean the same thing. Both are mere words until a human being gives them meaning. But until we express them as feelings their identities are alike. Both are ways of saying we care for whether we love or hate someone it is still an expression of caring. In fact, hatred almost always stems from love.