Joan, Your letter did something that was very positive. I don't pay much attention to who said what and why, but to the fact that they were stimulated to say something,. Too long we've sat on our rear ends, just accepting what is happening to us. At the most we listen to reports about what other people are doing to help us. ANd then we hold out our hands and ask for more. Like the majority of the human race, most of us are complacent, and quite content to sit back and read about what others are doing to help us. But your lestter caused a wrinkle -- i like to think of Madeleilne L'Engel's wrinkle in time, which has propelled us forward in time, and made some of us look at our future, futures that are very close for some of us - and made us take stock, and hopefully made us shed that complacency, and into action. That is the frame of mind I am trying to promote with the support group I amd trying to set up in ANnandale Va, - that we are not a "sit back and listen while others tell us what they are doing to help us" but rather a "lets get out there and do something about it" group. With your permission, I would like to read your letter at our next meeting. WE are going to watch Ivan's video, and then discuss 'The need for a cure and our needs till we get the cure" YOu should be very proud of your letter. Hiolary BLue Stan or Joan Snyder wrote: > > i am truly sorry that my letter could have created such a wrinkle in the > fabric of our universe. j > > -- > Joan E. Snyder 47/9 > [log in to unmask] > <http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/snyder/page1.htm> > "As if you could kill time without hurting eternity" > Henry David Thoreau