Object: A rope and a rock

Good morning, boys and girls. If a friend of yours was drowning, would you throw him a rope or a rock? I heard about a girl named Sally who was having a real problem with her weight. One day she saw a friend of hers walking up the driveway. Sally said to her mother, "Linda's so skinny it makes me sick."

"If it bothers you," her mother said gently, "why don't you do something about it?"

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