prompt: I was so scared of tornadoes growing up -- whenever tornado warnings happened_comma_ I was extremely frightened!
utterance: My mom said the best thing once when I was babysitting and a tornado warning went off and I didn't want my own fear to affect the little boy I was with -- she was on the phone and just said "You have big plans for the future_comma_ right? Nothing is going to get in the way of that." For some reason_comma_ it worked a charm ;-)