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In this blog <\/a>post on January 8th, we asked you to write about how knitting or crocheting make you better. Your comments were incredibly thoughtful and moving. We decided to take a selection of these comments, set them to music, and create a video, which we put on YouTube. In just a few days, over 7,000 people have viewed it.<\/p>\n

Here it is. Enjoy. And thank you for sharing.
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(If you’re looking at this blog post in your e-mail, please click the title of it to view it on our website and see the video.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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