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J took this picture for her school project about hands. This picture makes my hand look enormous, bigger and stronger than it really is. This hand is not very big or strong but it is good at holding onto things that should easily slip between the fingers. It can grip.

This hand can measure angles without my eyes and it can still remember all the signs for Away in a Manger after thirty years. It can remember and hold onto a chance encounter forever. It remembers your touch. This hand is clumsy and doesn't know where to put itself when you're talking. But it helps me to explain things you cannot see.



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