Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner taught me valuable life lessons as a child. The cartoon characters’ Saturday morning antics revealed:

• If you run off a cliff, then keep moving your feet and don’t look down.
• Gravity is a real DELETED BY CENSOR.
• Parasols provide poor protection from falling boulders.
• The Acme Corporation sells hard-to-find items like anvils, dynamite, invisible paint, giant rubber bands, and rocket-propelled roller skates.
• Coyotes possess more lives than cats.
• Cannon balls sting but cause no permanent harm.

Most of all, the Coyote taught me to keep trying no matter how many times I failed.

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