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The Importance Of Money In Papa's Parrot
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Do you spend enough time with your family, or any time at all? Well, you should, any extra time you have, spend it with your family! Spending time with people you care about is important because special people in your life will not be there for ever, and ever like you wish they would, neither will you, they really care about you! Mr. Tilian wanted to spend more time with Harry, but, Harry was growing up, so, Mr. Tilian bought a parrot because he was lonely, then, Mr. Tilian had a heart attack, and Harry felt bad about not spending more time with him. Early in the book, harry spends a lot of time with his dad, later in the book harry goes off to middle school and spends less time with his father, Mr.Tillian. Mr.Tillian gets lonely. In this text harry feels guilty about his father’s heart attack, he felt sad a lot too . Harry wished he would have spent more time with him. Spending time with those you love is important, because you never know when those people may be gone. .

In Papa’s Parrot, Harry comes to his father’s candy shop with his friends, to spend a few cents in the penny candy
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Even if you are embarrassed around your parents, you should still spend time with them. Your parents work hard to keep you educated, fed, healthy, and much more. When you own your own business you don't pay yourself, so you only have one income, especially if they are in the hospital, they don't work, no income, the hospital bill, less money. Parents go through a lot, they have to get you places on time, they have to care for you, imagine that, you can't do anything you're in the hospital!!! Now, do you see how stressful being a parent can be?!?! Now think how Mr. Tillian was feeling when he was in the hospital, probably useless, or sad. Do you put your famliy before

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