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Sometimes on the rainiest days
like here in the city,

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one bright spot is the hope of
seeing a rainbow.

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And our bright spot is Hot.

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New children's book, Hope is a
rainbow. Ok.

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This book was inspired by my
youngest daughter Hope when I was

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thinking about having a second
child and prayed and I hoped for

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her. So,

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you know what I decided to write
about the magic that hope can

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bring to all of our lives and to
celebrate.

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I got the help of some
incredible kids who shared the power of

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their hopes and dreams from the
Bronx. Check it out.

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What do you hope for? What do
you dream?

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Those are two questions.

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I asked my daughter Pope
delights in rainbows.

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And whenever I say like,

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what do you want to be when you
grow up a rainbow?

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It's the beautiful colors. It
appears before you.

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It's magical and that is the
image that personifies her and

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that's when it hit me. Hope is a
rainbow.

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Inspired by my own hope.

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I wanted to hear from other kids
on what they hope for and where

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they find hope when they need it
most.

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So with the help of some
incredible students at Lucero

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Elementary School in the Bronx.

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I set up my very own hope
station. Hi, have a seat.

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I, is this our Hope Table? Ok.
Let me ask you a question.

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What do you hope for?

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I'm graduating because I really
want to do my best.

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I hope that all my family love
me.

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I hope for my family and the
world to be happy.

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I hope that my mom and me can
have a family Girls Day and my dad

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and my brother have a family
Boys Day and I hope for another

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wish for give my mom a present.

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It wasn't long before something
struck me.

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What these kids hope for is
actually for the benefit of others.

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What do you hope for? Go hope
for my mom to be happy?

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What would make your mom happy?

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Help her, helping her, would
make her happy?

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Yeah, that's a great hope.

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I hope for me to help out my
sister when she needs it.

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I want to help out my parents
because I wanna make sure that

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they don't have to do all the
harder work.

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And then I turned the hope table
around on them.

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Now, would you give me some
advice if I'm looking for? Hope?

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Where could I find hope?

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Picture in your mind and then
you could keep it in your mind.

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So if you think about something
you can become it.

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So I think happy thoughts.

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I can be happy if I think funny
thoughts, I can be funny.

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I told you you were smart.

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So what are some of your
favorite things that you say that give

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you hope? My favorite
affirmations are I'm loved.

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I'm enough. I'm beautiful.

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I'm unique and I'm grounded, I'm
grounded.

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What does that mean to you?

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That means that I'm strong and
it means that I got this.

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You got this, you know, you do
got this right? You do got this.

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You know which one I love to. I
am enough. I am enough.

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I hope that my little girls
realize that they are enough. Ok.

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I have a question some days when
you feel like you don't have

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hope, you know, when it's like a
rainy day or something,

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where do you find hope? You
mean? Which, yeah.

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How do you find that? Where do
you find that?

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It's a rainy day and where you
come from?

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Ah, so come a rainbow, the
rainbow comes from? You're right.

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So,

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after the rain comes the sun and
then a rainbow high five for

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the rainbow. Here's the news,

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the storm does end and when it
does and if everything is just

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right, the rainbow pops up. So
it's like,

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know that your storm is going to
end and when it does,

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there's something beautiful on
the other side.

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Yes, about those kids.

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Do you know, do you not fall in
love with those kids?

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Every single kid hoped for?

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Something that was not about
themselves.

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I was so just pleasantly and
beautifully surprised by that.

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How about the little girl with
the mantras?

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I hope I'm, oh my, I can't. She
just right in my eyes like that.

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I loved her.

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Well, we know that this was
written with hope as an inspiration.

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So just take a quick look.

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I'm like so excited for my book
to come out and I love it.

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Uh I know him enough because my
mum and dad,

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I don't know if you,

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I know I'm enough because my
mommy loves me that too much to

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bear too much. That was really
not nice.

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It's putting us over the edge.

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But you guys, if you're in the
New York area, come see Hoda.

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She's going to be at Barnes and
Noble in Scarsdale at 530.

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Then on Thursday,

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she's going to be at the Barnes
and Noble in Union Square at

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1230 Thursday night at 7 p.m.
She's gonna be with Stephanie

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World at the Sid Jacobson JCC
and East Hills, New York.

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Ok. So who is going to be on
the?

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She said that I am enough
because my mommy loves me. Ok.

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We have to go to break, ok.

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We have to go to break and you
can also check out hope is a

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Rainbow at today.com/books and
Hoda and Savannah will be on the

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Tonight show with Jimmy Fallon
tonight. So its a lot too much.

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You need A R coming up next.