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we are all the same inside by timothy d bellavia t.i.m.m e company inc new york

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credits text illustrations copyright © 2000 2010 by timothy d bellavia edits revisions by kristin walsh photographs timothy d bellavia beckett logan rex lott and kristin walsh prop stylists liz mcgaritty renato salvador and timothy d bellavia art direction wayland timme design concepts timothy d bellavia kristin walsh the images of this book are a melding of handmade sage dolls props/sets drawn ink sketches and digital photography in a computer where the sketches were colored and shaded the photographs mildly enhanced all rights reserved no part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical including photocopying recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without written permission from the publisher special tenth anniversary edition printed and bound in the united states of america isbn 978-0-9718232-4-2 library of congress cataloging -in publication data on file www.weareallthesameinside.com l www.timothydbellavia.com coming soon special tenth anniversary waasti musical cd the sage image and we are all the same inside are registered trademarks of the tolerance in multi media education company all rights reserved.

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this book is dedicated to all of my kin family and shazzam girl.

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the moon was bright and the stars were light it was a quiet peaceful night a glowing spaceship suddenly appeared those who saw it had great fear.

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who had come to earth sage a person like you and me but only his insides we can see.

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sage he had a goal had a mission he wanted to show us his purpose and soul we are all kin on my planet we are all insides with no outside skin

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when sage s insides were all that they could see the frightened children and they began to flee panicked you don t need to please don t run away hide i really want to show you that we are all the same inside sage was completely different from anyone they had seen before they wanted to go to their homes and didn t want to see him anymore.

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n ea r lonely sage wandered the planet he walked far and near he thought about the troubles that he had encountered here fa r

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sage found an abandoned trunk filled with unwanted old clothes and junk suddenly an idea popped into his head if he couldn t look like himself he d look like an earthling instead he thought finally i can be their once i put on some outside skin kin,

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sage thought if i make my skin look dark i will look just like clyde-mark i will shine so bright if i look just like handsome dwight people will be filled with glee if i m sweet and cute like little lee

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if i put on s bright-red hair that will not give my friends a priscilla scare i will have friends all over town if i look like renato with skin that s light brown i am they won t be taken aback if i wear dasha s hair of purple and black sure clearly if i wear safia s i cannot fail beautiful red veil

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sage was all ready he ran to the park in his new dark skin clyde-mark he would look like

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went back and changed again he began to grin he had decided to look like sage priscilla but forgot the outside skin!

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sage called out don t worry run and hide haven t you all noticed please don t we are all the same inside

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