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- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 00:46:58 -0600
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- From: Nancy Harwood <harwood@TENET.EDU>
- Subject: disillusionment
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- Remember how pleased some of us were a week or so ago about receiving the
- letters from Publishers Clearing House saying how close we were to winning
- the BIG money? While I *really* didn't believe it was as much of a sure
- thing as the letter made it sound, particularly after I heard that several
- of us had received them, still there was that little tingle of a "What if...?"
- Tonight at a party a friend was telling me that she received *the* letter
- last week...and then, yesterday, she received the exact same letter, all
- about how the addressee had followed all the necessary steps to be
- a winner, etc., etc., and was now in line for the big prizes...and THIS
- letter was addressed to her first husband, who died in February, 1985.
- Certainly shook my faith...I'm going out tomorrow and buy lottery
- tickets...no more magazines for me.
- ndh
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