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I’m feeling in a grateful mood, 
delighted just with being born. 
I feel a surge of gratitude 
each time I reach for candy corn. 
  
The pleasures of this life are brief, 
the wine and revel do not last. 
But oh the glorious relief 
of dining out while others fast. 
  
Although I never donate blood 
or sacrifice myself for others, 
as long as there is chocolate mud 
I feel that all mankind are brothers.