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JUST THOUGHTS “If a child has parents and has to ask them to love them, then they are also an orphan. They just do not know it yet.” Roger Dean Kiser “If its love from me you seek, I will give you all that I have in my heart. However, it shall only make you lonelier than I.” Roger Dean Kiser “To see what an orphan sees just open your eyes. To feel what an orphan feels just close your eyes.” Roger Dean Kiser “I have no feeling about my parents trying to kill me. However, what hurts most is the orphanage that wounded me.” Roger Dean Kiser “The story about ‘The Birds and the Bees’ never had much of a romantic meaning to me. I guess that is because the first person to tell me about ‘The Birds and the Bees’ was a pervert.” Roger Dean Kiser “Has the world forgotten that even an orphan would like to hear a love song once in a while?” Roger Dean Kiser “Being loved is not a matter of life or death to an orphan. It is much more important than that.” Roger Dean Kiser “If there is one thing I have learned from my years living in an orphanage, it is that isolation from the rest of the world is a sure recipe for trouble.” Roger Dean Kiser “You punished and treated me so badly that by the time someone did come along who told me they loved me, I did not believe them.” Roger Dean Kiser “If nature intended me to be who I am, then why did the orphanage beat me into becoming something that I am not?” Roger Dean Kiser “Of all my years in the orphanage, I cannot remember one single day that I was happy. On the other hand, I cannot remember one single day that I was sad. I guess that was the problem. I was just stuck in between the two, standing there looking out the six-foot high chain-link fence.” Roger Dean Kiser “It is nice to know that an orphan loves and respects all his ex-wives. It kind of makes him feel that he is not the son-of-a-bitch they all say he is.” Roger Dean Kiser