[align=left]>[align=center]There is a two-letter word that perhaps has more meaning than any other 
>two-letter word, and that is "UP." It's easy to understand UP, meaning 
>toward the sky or at the top of the list, but when we waken in the 
>morning, why do we wake UP?  
> 
>At a meeting, why does a topic come UP? Why do we speak UP and why are 
>the officers UP for election and why is it UP to the secretary to write 
>UP a report? 
> 
>We read UP on a story in the paper that we pick UP to find out what is Up 
>in the world & make UP our minds to not give UP hope that some thing good 
>will turn UP. 
> 
>We call UP our friends, we use it to brighten UP a room, polish UP the 
>silver, and we warm UP the leftovers and clean UP the kitchen. 
> 
>We lock UP the house and some guys fix UP the old car. 
> 
>At other times the little word has real special meaning. People stir UP 
>trouble, line UP for tickets, work UP an appetite, and think UP excuses. 
> 
>To be dressed is one thing but to be dressed UP is special, and this is 
>confusing. 
> 
>A drain must be opened UP, because it is stopped UP. We open UP a store 
>in the morning but we close it UP at night. We seem to be pretty mixed UP 
>about UP. 
> 
>To be knowledgeable of the proper uses of UP, look UP the word in the 
>dictionary. In a desk size dictionary, UP takes UP almost 1/4th the page 
>and definitions add UP to about thirty. 
> 
>If you are UP to it, you might try building UP a list of the many ways UP 
>is used. It will take UP a lot of your time, but if you don't give UP, 
>you may wind UP with Up to a hundred or more 
> 
>When it threatens to rain, we say it is clouding UP. When the sun comes 
>out we say it is clearing UP. When it rains, it wets UP the earth When it 
>doesn't rain for a while, things dry UP. 
> 
>One could go on and on, but I'll wrap it UP, for my time is UP & I leave 
>it Up to you to step UP & Keep Up the sharing of this list that has been 
>made UP to lift Up your spirit, so put UP or Shut UP. 
> 
> 
>..... I give UP!  
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