Can you answer this riddle?

Here is a pretty neat little thing from Paul Harvey.
See if you can guess the riddle at the end.
Paul Harvey Writes:

We tried so hard to make things better for our kids
that we made them worse. For my grandchildren,
I'd like better. I'd really like for them to know about
hand me down clothes and homemade ice cream and
leftover meat loaf sandwiches. I really would.

I hope you learn humility by being humiliated, and
that you learn honesty by being cheated.
I hope you learn to make your own bed and mow the
lawn and wash the car. And I really hope nobody
gives you a brand new car when you are sixteen.

It will be good if at least one time you can see
puppies born and your old dog put to sleep.

I hope you get a black eye fighting for something
you believe in.

I hope you have to share a bedroom with your younger
brother/sister. And it's all right if you have to draw a line
down the middle of the room, but when he wants to
crawl under the covers with you because he's scared,
I hope you let him.

When you want to see a movie and your little
brother/sister wants to tag
along, I hope you'll let him/her.
I hope you have to walk uphill to school with your
friends and that you live
in a town where you can do it safely. !

On rainy days when you have to catch a ride, I hope
you don't ask your driver to drop you two blocks
away so you won't be seen riding with someone as
uncool as your Mom.

If you want a slingshot, I hope your Dad teaches you
how to make one instead of buying one.
I hope you learn to dig in the dirt and read books.

When you learn to use computers, I hope you also
learn to add and subtract in your head.

I hope you get teased by your friends when you have
your first crush on a boy\girl, and when you talk back
to your mother that you learn what ivory soap tastes like.

May you skin your knee climbing a mountain, burn
your hand on a stove and stick your tongue on a frozen flagpole.

I don't care if you try a beer once, but I hope you
don't like it.. And if a friend offers you dope or a joint, I hope
you realize he is not your friend.

I sure hope you make time to sit on a porch with
your Granny/Pop-Pop and go fishing with your Uncle.

May you feel sorrow at a funeral and joy during the holidays.

I hope your mother punishes you when you throw a
baseball through your neighbor's window and that she hugs
you and kisses you at Christmas time when you give her a
plaster mold of your hand.

These things I wish for you - tough times and
disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's
the only way to appreciate life.

Written with a pen. Sealed with a kiss. I'm here for
you. And if I die before you do, I'll go to heaven and wait for you.


Send this to all of your friends. We secure our
friends, not by accepting favors, but by doing them.


Paul Harvey RIDDLE:

When asked this riddle, 80% of kindergarten kids got
the answer, compared to
17% of Stanford University seniors.

What is greater than God, More evil than the devil,
The poor have it, The rich need it, And if you eat it, you'll die?

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