hi all At 08:59 1999/08/16 -0700, joan hartman wrote: >Janet...thank you for your words of wisdom on this Joan Samuelson >article and responses to it...when I read them, tears came to my >eyes because of what the future would/might hold....but you bring >me back to reality....there is hope, research is being done, things >are happening for the good, and I will just take it one step at a >time and one day at a time...there is a good future...we just need >to ride out the present....pray for the futuree.....work to get the >Udall billl money put into research, etc......Janet, you are there >to keep us on track and reality-based. Thank you. Joan Hartman thanks for those kind words, joan yikes joan snyder joan hartman joan samuelson i think we have a hard enough time learning how to deal with our 'legitimate' emotional lives let alone being subjected to those who manipulate and distort for fun and/or profit but then again maybe [hah!] those manipulators and their tricks are given to us as another test for us to learn from my mid-atlantean exposure to news coverage from both sides of that large pond opened my eyes a bit wider than they had been janet janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset snail-mail: PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario K0A 1A0 Canada website: a new voice <http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/> e-mail: <[log in to unmask]>