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Returning home one afternoon with my two daughters, Kimberley, age two, and Kristi, six months, a mother pulled into here driveway and stopped to check the mailbox. But when she returned to the car, she found Kimberley had pushed the locks down on both doors and the mother had left her keys in the ignition. For what seemed an hour she tried to explain to Kimberley how to pull up the door handle through the window. She was on the verge of tears. Her husband wasn’t home, and since she lived in the country, there were no neighbors to help. Finally Kimberley stood up and softly tapped on the window. As the mother looked down at her, she said, "Mommy, do you want me to roll down the window?" 1