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from the Co-Chairs of Team Parkinson: Dear Friends, Team Parkinson at the Los Angeles Marathon 2004 was a great success and we want to thank all of you who participated as athletes, fundraisers, volunteers, and cheerleaders. Our three days at the Expo were a lot of fun. We raised awareness about Parkinson's disease, collected donations and had a number of people sign up to be included next year. On Saturday afternoon we were honored to have May May Ali at our booth autographing copies of her wonderful children's book. She drew quite a crowd with her warmth and humor and helped Team Parkinson by donating all proceeds from the sale of the book. It was truly fantastic! Our carbo-loading dinner on Saturday night was terrific. The company was great, the food excellent, and the speakers informative and entertaining. May May graced us again with her presence and signed books and took pictures with many of the guests. Aaron and Harriet Moretzsky were our Grand Prize winners and raised almost $20,000! Race day was HOT! What a scorcher! But all our athletes are OK even though it was a very difficult run. All of our participants with Parkinson's disease finished and we're so very proud of them. As last year, we welcome you to share your personal story of this weekend with us so that we can post it on our webpage for others to read. There will be a full report and photographs available online very soon. We'll keep you posted on that. As of this writing, we've raised just over $120,000 and counting! Please remember that donations are welcome until the end of June. Thank you all again so much for all your support. Our hope is that some day soon we can e-mail you all that a cure has been found and that Team Parkinson is part of the legacy that made it happen. Edna & John Ball 866-822-2873 www.teamparkinsonla.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn