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As follows, I thought this was both a fine and sickening exzmple of a meme
virus, ( all the script arrived as is, and I have not added a bean to it's
content, just copy between the ARROWS. I left in the addresses, in case you
want to track it, though I have no idea how valid they are)
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"Bennett, Michael
From: Kaminetska, Zoya
Sent: Wednesday, 20 September 2000 15:27
To: ALL AGRESEARCH
Subject: FW: (fwd)
Importance: High
The message below and the poem are self-explaining. This was forwarded to me
from Stockholm through Ukraine
This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital.
It was sent by a medical doctor - Dr. You Cheng Ma.
Please do what you can to help fulfil this young girl's dream by also reading
what is
in the closing statement AFTER THE POEM.
A simple but very pertinent message.
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SLOW DANCE
Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask "How are you?"
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say "Hi"?
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.
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PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO HELP THIS YOUNG GIRL.
ALL FORWARDED E-MAILS ARE TRACKED
TO OBTAIN THE TOTAL COUNT.
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Dear All:
PLEASE pass this mail on to everybody you know. It is the request of a special
little girl
who will soon leave this world as she has cancer.
Thank you for your effort, this isn't a chain letter, but a choice for all of
us to help a little girl
that's dying of a serious and fatal form of cancer.
Please send this to everyone you know... or don't know. This little girl has 6
months left to live,
and as her dying wish, she wanted to send a letter telling everyone to live
their life to the fullest,
since she never will.
She'll never make it to prom, graduate from high school, or get married and
have a family of her own.
By you sending this to as many people as possible, you can give her and her
family a little hope,
because with every name that this is sent to, The American Cancer Society will
donate 3 cents per name
to her treatment and recovery plan. One guy sent this to 500 people!!!!
So I know that we can send it to at least 5 or 6. Just think it could be you
one day.
It's not even you money, just your time!!!
"PLEASE PASS ON AS A LAST REQUEST"
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Dr. Dennis Shields, Professor
Department of Developmental and
Molecular Biology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of
Yeshiva University
1300 Morris Park Avenue
Bronx, New York 10461
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Jenny Onyx
Associate Professor
Phone: +61 02 9514 5246 / 9514 3633, Fax: +61 02 9514 3602
E-mail: Jenny.onyx@uts.edu.au <mailto:Jenny.onyx@uts.edu.au>
School of Management
Faculty of Business, UTS
P.O. Box 123, Broadway NSW 2007, Australia
-----Original Message-----
From: Andreas Bette [SMTP:ab@physto.se]
Sent: Monday, 18 September 2000 20:56
To: all@physto.se; personal@telge.kth.se
Subject: Fw: (fwd)
Hej, detta aer inte spam som sagt utan en gest mot en ung doende
flicka,
Haelsningar
Andreas Bette
---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 09:03:23 +0200
From: Willmy <Willmy@t-online.de>
To: ab@physto.se
Subject: Fw: (fwd)
Maciek Hojnowski schrieb:
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrzej Majewski
To: akm21@columbia.edu
Cc: zawadzka ; Krzysztof Wroblewski ; paulina urbaniak ;
schrobot@cms.unitech.ac.pg ; Rebecca Snowdy ; Maria Najdzionek ; Urbaniak ;
Zofia Pasula ; Norbert H. Van Acker ; MMarzynski@aol.com ; Mateusz Wardecki
Marian Marzynski ; Marcin Majewski ; prof.dr hab.Zbigniew Majewski ; Jacek
Majewski ; Janusz Wojdyła ; Janina ; jacek rusiecki ; Rob Kool ; gavin
duncan ; Fiona Quinn ; Emilka Chrobot ; jerzy.pasula@pl.ibm.com ;
marians@usa.net ; malgosia@aims-kw.com ; laj18@columbia.edu
Sent: 16 September, 2000 6:51 AM
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