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A Thousand-Year Heart

By: admin | Date: September 7, 2015 | Categories: reading

Occasionally you meet someone with a thousand-year heart. The person with the thousand-year heart has made the most of the passionate, tumultuous phase of love. Those months or years of passion have engraved a deep commitment in their mind. The person or thing they once loved hotly they now love warmly but steadily, happily, unshakably. […]

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Willing to Jump

By: admin | Date: May 5, 2012 | Categories: history, stories

In his book One Crowded Hour, Tim Bowden describes an incident in Borneo in 1964.  Nepalese fighters known as Gurkhas were asked if they would be willing to jump from airplanes into combat against the Indonesians.  The Gurkhas didn’t clearly understand what was involved, but they bravely said they would do it, asking only that […]