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http://www.thelearningcommunity.us/resources-by-format/tips-for-parents/the-beauty-bias.aspx

Ms. Sobczak said something is living if it breathes, grows, eats, drinks, goes to the bathroom, and has babies.  Nonliving things are not dead. Nonliving things have never been alive. Ms. Sobczak said that we are alive! She said our pencils and paper were not living .