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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>OK so we got 6 cards for Christine, thanks! We will likely be taking those to her Monday. So here’s one last chance for you that doesn’t involve paper or pens or stamps or envelopes or any of that obsolete technology that some of our younger extropians might never have heard of, and something you can do right now:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Post a word of encouragement to Christine, or Dr. Lajeunesse if you prefer, to the following @:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:bob@difranza.com">bob@difranza.com</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Bob will print them out, cut and paste the messages onto the back of a photo enlargement he made of a Buddhist guru with a cell phone in his hand. Bob saw this guru (or lama?) guy on his travels somewhere on this confused globe.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I know it might feel weird writing a get-well message to a stranger, but I want this done anyway. Short version: Dr. Lajeunesse is a urologist in Reno Nevada. A couple weeks ago a former patient who wasn’t even theirs came into the office with a twelve gage, killed her partner, very nearly killed Dr. Lajeunesse, seriously injured a bystander. We didn’t know for several days if she would live or die. Fortunately she is young and strong and has pulled through the worst of it, but she has a long and painful recovery ahead. Shows to go ya, bad things happen to good people. Lets do everything we can to make a good thing happen to a good person. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>So here’s what I want: type up a message of encouragement, just something along the lines of: We heard what happened and we are so sorry, etc, you have many friends and fans who you have never met, etc, and we are pulling for you, hoping for a full and speedy recovery, etc, you know the rest, do your best, and my extropian friends I want this DONE doobydoo done done, do it now, do it well, write it now before you forget, post it to Bob, <a href="mailto:bob@difranza.com">bob@difranza.com</a>, do it even if you sent a paper card, it’s a good deed that doesn’t cost you anything but a few minutes, so dooooo it and I thank you from the bottom of my bottom.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>DO IT!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>