Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul II by Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Kimberly Kirberger Read Free Book Online Page B

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A Few Reasons Why Guys Like Girls
1. They always smell good, even if it's just shampoo
2. The way their heads always find the right spot on your shoulder
3. The ease with which they fit into your arms
4. The way they kiss you and all of a sudden everything is right in the world
5. How cute they are when they eat
6. The way they take hours to dress, but in the end its all worthwhile
7. Because they are always warm, even when it's minus thirty degrees outside
8. The way they look good no matter what they wear
9. The way they fish for compliments
10. How cute they are when they argue
11. The way their hands always find yours
12. The way they smile
13. The way you feel when you see their names on the caller ID after you just had a big fight
14. The way they say ''Let's not fight anymore," even though you know an hour later . . . 
15. The way they kiss when you do something nice for them
16. The way they kiss you when you say "I love you"
17. Actually, just the way they kiss you . . . 
18. The way they fall into your arms when they cry
19. Then the way they apologize for crying over something silly
20. The way they hit you and expect it to hurt
21. Then the way they apologize when it does hurt (even though we don't admit it)
22. The way they say, "I miss you"
23. The way you miss them
24. The way their tears make you want to change the world so that it doesn't hurt them anymore
     

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Yet regardless of whether you love them, hate them, wish they would die or know that you would die without them . . .  it matters not. Because once they come into your life, whatever they are to the world, they become everything to you. When you look them in the eyes, traveling to the depths of their souls, and you say a million things without a trace of a sound, you know that your own life is inevitably consumed within the rhythmic beatings of their very hearts.
We love them for a million reasons. It is a thing not of the mind but of the heart. A feeling. Only felt.
Kimberly Kirberger
[AUTHORS' NOTE: We thought it would be fun for you to send in more reasons to add to this list for next book , Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul III. You can also send in reasons why girls like guys, and we will include them in the next book also .]
     

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Love Is Never Lost
If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love.
Thich Nhat Hanh
They say it's better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all.
That thought wouldn't be very comforting to Mike Sanders. He had just been dumped by his girlfriend. Of course, she didn't put it quite that way. She said, "I do care about you, Mike, and I hope we can still be friends." Great , Mike thought. Still be friends. You, me and your new boyfriend will go to the movies together .
Mike and Angie had been going together since they were freshmen. But over the summer, she had met someone else. Now as he entered his senior year, Mike was alone. For three years they shared the same friends and favorite hang-outs. The thought of returning to those surroundings without Angie made him feelwell, empty.
Football practice usually helped him take his mind off his troubles. Coaches have a way of running you until you are so tired, you can't really think of anything else.
     

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But lately, Mike's heart just wasn't in it. One day it caught up with him. He dropped passes he wouldn't normally miss and let himself get tackled by guys who had never been able to touch him before.
Mike knew better than to have the coach yell at him more than once, so he tried a little harder and made it through the rest of the practice. As he was running off the field, he was told to report to the coach's office. "Girl, family or school: Which one is bothering you, son?" asked his coach.
"Girl," Mike responded. "How did you guess?"
"Sanders, I've been coaching football since before you were born, and every time I've seen an all-star play like