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| ~A Mother's Love~ |
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| There were two warring tribes in the Andes, one that lived in the lowlands & the other high in the mountains. The mountain people invaded the lowlanders one day, & as part of their plundering of the people, they kidnapped a baby of one of the lowlander families & took the infant with them back to the mountains.
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| The lowlanders didn't know how to climb the mountain. �They didn't know any of the trails that the mountain people used, & they didn't know where to find the mountain people or how to track them in the in the steep terrain. |
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| Even so, they sent out their best party of fighting men to climb the mountain & bring the baby home. |
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| The men tried first one method of climbing & then another. �They tried on trail & then another. �After several days of effort, however, they had climbed only a couple of hundred feet. |
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| Feeling hopeless & helpless, the lowlander men decided that the cause was lost, & they prepared to return to their village below. |
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| As they were packing their gear for the descent, they saw the baby's mother walking toward them. �They realized that she was coming down the mountain that they hadn't figured out how to climb. |
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| And then they saw that she had the baby strapped to her back. �How can this be? |
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| One man greeted her & said, "We couldn't climb this mountain. �How did you do this when we, the strongest & most able men in the village, couldn't do it?" |
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| She shrugged her shoulders & said, "It wasn't your baby." |
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| by Jim Stovall |
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