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Loyal Shyzer-ian Fellner forwarded me an e-mail last week from his Aunt and it still has me chuckling.

This past summer I wrote about going down to Charleston to spend some time with Fellner and his family at the beach. Some of his fellow relatives in attendance were his aunt, uncle, and four cousins from Kansas City, all of whom were quite fun and enjoyable to spend time with. Fellner’s cousins were especially adorable since they were all below age 9 or so, with the youngest, Gabrielle, clocking in around 4 years old.

So you can imagine the humor aroused when Fellner forwarded this to me:

I had to e-mail this story before I forgot it. At bedtime, when we say our prayers, all the kids get to “bless” whoever they want (God bless Mom, God bless Dad, etc.) The other night, we were saying prayers and it was Gabrielle’s turn to bless someone. We had already blessed all the family members so she was trying to think of someone else. Out of the blue she said “God bless Goob, that Kevin brought to the beach.” It was hilarious - I was surprised that she even remembered him and don’t know what made her think of him.

That’s right folks. You spend a week with me and the impact I have on you is so enormous, you’ll be making sure the Big Man is looking out for me. Which is great for me, since we all know how spotty my church attendance is. But luckily for Gabrielle, I like to return each and every favor I receive, so tonight she’ll be getting a little somethin’ somethin’ in the prayer department.

Hopefully I send it to the correct God, though. I can’t count how many prayers I screwed up on and accidentally sent to that damn Ganesha! An elephant with four arms…what will they think of next?!