[ExI] well wishes for marilyn

[Giulio Prisco]

Dear Marilyn,
you don't know me but I heard of you in a message posted to a mailing
list. I'm very sorry to hear that you need to spend a few weeks in the
hospital with nothing to do. But thinking is doing! I suggest that you
spend these few weeks thinking about what you want to do with the rest
of your life. There are lots of important things to do, just pick
some! And recover soon!

On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 6:50 PM spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Reposting under new subject line.
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> Last Sunday, my son's childhood friend was in a bad accident, van hit her on
> her bicycle.  She is busted up all to hell, comatose for three and a half
> days, but when she woke up yesterday she was still Marilyn, asking all the
> expected questions.  She has going in her favor that she was a track star
> and in excellent physical condition.  This is the girl who organized a
> non-profit math tutoring service at her high school, was a gold medalist
> athlete, eagle in Boy Scouts, gold rank in girl scouts (two different
> things) was scheduled to be the head of next week's National Youth
> Leadership Training for Boy Scouts of America, just all around good kid.
>
> Here's what I need from you please: write a sentence or two of encouragement
> to the patient, considering what you would feel if you were a teenage track
> star who suddenly needs to spend a few weeks at least in the hospital with
> nothing to do.  If you have other chat groups, forward this note, ask them
> to please write a line or two for a teenage accident victim, forward the
> comments and well-wishes to me.  We are friends with her family.  I will
> print, cut out, paste hard copy into handmade get-well cards or a poster or
> both, take them over to her at the hospital.  Do it please, do it now, do it
> with all the good will you can manage.  Post them here, offlist is fine:
>
> spike at rainier66.com
>
> and I will take it from there.  Her name is Marilyn Do.
> Do it for Do.  Send them.  Do it now pls.  Thanks!
>
> spike
>
>
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