“You've made this day a special day, by just your being you. There's no person in the whole world like you; and I like you just the way you are.”
Fred Rogers closed nearly every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood with a version of these words, speaking directly to the child watching. An ordained Presbyterian minister and devoted father of two sons, Rogers believed unconditional acceptance was the most radical gift an adult could give a child.
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