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The Dinner of a Lifetime with Oprah and Actor Sidney Poitier
Oprah's Book Club  |  January 01, 2006
Lisa shares a story


As everyone finishes their "book cover" birthday cake, Lisa shares a final story about another dessert and her experience reading The Measure of a Man.

The day she picked up the book, she ate Chinese food. After the meal, she says her fortune cookie read, "What you will discover is yourself."

"I thought that was really interesting, and I kept that fortune," she says to Sidney. "I kept reading the book, looking for things to tell my sons. And what I found was me and my dignity through you. I want to thank you for that because that is the gift I can pass to my boys."
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