The Answer
Inspirational poet Fleur Conkling Heyliger’s recognizable and heartwarming poem The Answer (to an Adopted Child) first appeared in the April 5, 1952 issue of the Saturday Evening Post.
THE ANSWER (To an adopted child)
Not flesh of my flesh,
Nor bone of my bone,
But still miraculously
My own.
Never forget
For a single minute:
You didn’t grow under my heart,
But in it.
—Fleur Conkling Heyliger
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April 18, 2009 
Fiction & Poetry
The Little Miller Attack
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Death and Ms. FitzSimons
When a man with terminal cancer goes off into the snowy woods to meet death, he finds more than he bargained for.
Miss Temptation
A soldier just back from Korea disrupts a small town's daily ritual—and makes a pretty girl cry—in Kurt Vonnegut's well-loved short story.
Treasures of the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library
Examine some of Kurt Vonnegut's personal artifacts that are on display at the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library in downtown Indianapolis.
The No-Talent Kid
Nothing could shake Walter's determination to get into the marching band. So how could his conductor tell him how misplaced his ambition was?
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