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To My Laughter, This birthday is a big year as you enter your teenage years and prepare to enter high school. You are entering the last phase of childhood more and more we'll step back as parents, giving you space to both succeed and fail on your own. My goal is for you to learn from both. I hope that you use them to help become the man you want to be, the man God made you to be. This year you will receive your Bible, the one you've begged for all year long. Your entire life we have worked hard to make sure there is always a group of men in your life that you can look to and follow after. As you enter your teen years we want you to know that you can reach, past us, for advice and direction. We want you to learn to find trustworthy people to lean on when life is hard or when things seem blurry. Inside this Bible you will find notes from men who have gone before you. You are loved now and always. For your Bible cover I chose Jerusalem, because you have always dreamed big and ...