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		A Thank You 
		from the Hart family 
  
		
			
				
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					We write to thank the 
					people of  the 
					community for the kindness, compassion, 
					and love shown to us during this most 
					difficult time. 
					 
					Chelsea was a loving, giving and caring 
					young lady.  She embraced life as she 
					embraced people, with unconditional 
					acceptance and love. 
					 
					She had the uncanny ability to kindle an 
					excitement for life in everyone she met. 
					And she caused all whom she met to see 
					goodness in everything. 
					 
					Chelsea found goodness in Decorah. 
					 
					Chelsea 
					found peace in Decorah. 
					 
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		Chelsea Nicole 
		Hart 
		June 15, 1984 – June 26, 2009 
		 
		This is what you should do: 
		Love the earth and sun and animals, 
		despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, 
		stand up for the stupid and crazy, 
		devote your income and labor to others, 
		hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, 
		have patience and indulgence toward the people, 
		reexamine all you have been told in school 
		or in church or in any book, 
		dismiss what insults your very soul, 
		and your flesh shall become a great poem. 
		 
		–Walt Whitman 
		excerpt from Preface to 1855 edition, 
		Leaves of Grass  
		 
		  
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