January: A busy time for me. Most of the family decided to read me through this year. They kept me busy for the first two weeks, but they have forgotten me now. FEBRUARY: Clean-up time. I was dusted yesterday and put in my place. My owner did use me for a few minutes last week. He had been in an argument and was looking up some references to prove he was right. MARCH: Had a busy day first of the month. My owner was elected president of the PTA & used me to prepare a speech. APRIL: Grandpa visited us this month. He kept me on his lap for an hour reading from 1 Peter 5:5-7. He seems to think more of me than do some people in my own household. MAY: I have a few green stains on my pages. Some spring flowers were pressed in my pages. JUNE: I look like a scrapbook. They have stuffed me full of newspaper clippings -- one of the girls got married. JULY: They put me in a suitcase today. I guess we are off on vacation. I wish I could stay home; I know I'll be closed up in this thing for at least two weeks. AUGUST: Still in the suitcase. SEPTEMBER: Back home at last and in my old familiar place. I have a lot of company. Two women's magazines and four comic books are stacked on top of me. I wish I could be read as much as they are. OCTOBER: They read me a little bit today. One of them is very sick. Right now I am sitting in the center of the coffee table. I think the Pastor is coming by for a visit. NOVEMBER: Back in my old place. Somebody asked today if I were a scrapbook. DECEMBER: The family is busy getting ready for the holidays. I guess I'll be covered up under wrapping paper & packages again...just as I am every Christmas.

- You always listen to your mother, you understand? Do what she tells you to. She’s your best friend. You tell her you love her everyday. - Now you’re too young for girls right now. But there’s going to come a time and when it does, you treat them like princesses because that’s what they are. - When you say you’re going to do something, you do it because your word is your bond, son and that’s all you have. - And money…you make money whenever you get the chance even if you got to sell out once in a while. You make as much money as you can. - Don’t be stupid like your father. - Everything is so much easier with money, son. - Don’t smoke. - Be kind to people. - If somebody chooses you, you know we talked about this, you stand up. You be a man and stay away from the bad things, son. Don’t get caught up in the bad things. So many great things are there for you. - I'll never leave you. I’m always with you .Right there. I love you Son. - That's what faith's about - believing what you don't wanna believe. - Not goodbye - I hate goodbye - see you later... - I am not going to bury my son, my son is going to bury me! - We all know how this works, people. In order for Mike to live, someone has to die. I'm the father. It might as well be me. - Here is my will...it says that I leave my heart to my son. - Hey, what good would the world be without you? Without you, there is no world.