[Rhodes22-list] Fw: FW: Please read to the end
Steve Alm
salm at mn.rr.com
Mon May 5 03:33:50 EDT 2003
Don't worry. I'll make sure the music never stops. 8-)
Slimmy
On 5/3/03 12:14 PM, "Robert Quinn" <rjquinn at bellsouth.net> wrote:
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> It is so easy to lose sight of what is important.
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> This came this morning as a little reminder.
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> This poem was written by a terminally
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> ill young girl in a New York Hospital.
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> It was sent by a medical doctor -
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> Make sure to read what is in the closing
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> SLOW DANCE
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> Have you ever watched kids
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> On a merry-go-round?
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> Or listened to the rain
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> Slapping on the ground?
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> Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
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> Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
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> You better slow down.
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> Don't dance so fast.
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> Time is short.
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> The music won't last.
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> Do you run through each day
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> On the fly?
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> When you ask How are you?
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> Do you hear the reply?
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> When the day is done
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> Do you lie in your bed
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> With the next hundred chores
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> Running through your head?
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> You'd better slow down
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> Don't dance so fast.
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> Time is short.
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> The music won't last.
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> Ever told your child,
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> We'll do it tomorrow?
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> And in your haste,
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> Not see his sorrow?
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> Ever lost touch,
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> Let a good friendship die
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> Cause you never had time
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> To call and say,"hi"
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> You'd better slow down.
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> Don't dance so fast.
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> Time is short.
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> The music won't last.
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> When you run so fast to get somewhere
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> You miss half the fun of getting there.
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> When you worry and hurry through your day,
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> It is like an unopened gift....
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> Thrown away.
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> Life is not a race.
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> Do take it slower
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> Hear the music
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> Before the song is over.
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> PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO HELP THIS LITTLE GIRL.
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> ALL FORWARDED E-MAILS ARE TRACKED TO OBTAIN THE TOTAL COUNT.
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> Dear All:
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> PLEASE pass this mail on to everybody you know.
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> It is the request of a special little girl who
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> will soon leave this world as she has cancer.
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> Please send this to everyone you know or don't know.
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> This little girl has 6 months left to live, and as her dying wish,
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> She wanted to send a letter telling everyone to live
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> their life to the fullest, since she never will.
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> She'll never make it to prom, graduate from high
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> school, or get married and have a family of her own.
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> By you sending this to as many people as possible,
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> you can give her and her family a little hope,
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> because with every name that this is sent to,
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> The American Cancer Society
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> will donate 3 cents per name to her treatment and recovery plan.
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> One guy sent this to 500 people! So I know that we can
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> send it to at least 5 or 6.
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> Just think it could be you one day. It's not even
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> your money, just your time!
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> PLEASE PASS ON AS A LAST REQUEST
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> Dr. Dennis Shields, Professor
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> Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology
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> 1300 Morris Park Avenue
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> Bronx, New York 10461
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