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Mister Rogers: Your Neighborhood Lives On In Our Hearts

By KUHT [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons Every now and then, someone comes along who is truly beyond compare in what they give to our world.  Even in our corporate society’s ravenous quest for more money, the qualities and accomplishments of some things or people are so singular that they have not yet been duplicated.  This is certainly true in the case of Fred Rogers, better known to the world as Mister Rogers. Millions of kids in my generation grew up with Mister Rogers.  Even though most of us only knew him through a TV screen, his incredible love for us surged right through that barrier.  As he constantly told all children, “You are special,” “There is no one else in the whole world exactly like you.”  He seemed to understand all of our feelings and let us know that it was okay to feel what we felt, even if it was fear, anger, shyness – anything at all.  That was just part of kids being themselves. And interestingly, though Mister Rogers has ...