<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 2/22/01 3:13:17 PM Central Standard Time,
<BR>revjimaTACONIC.NET writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">I know the feeling of not being able to wait. We could not leave before
<BR>Easter last year. It took forever to come and made it hard to concentrate
<BR>during Lent and Holy Week</BLOCKQUOTE>
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<BR>:-)
<BR>Jim,
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<BR>I was just imagining e-mailing everyone the day before I left. It's very
<BR>surreal, and not the trip I had originally planned on. I first decided this
<BR>was something I had to do, in teh midst of a spiritual crisis, last August.
<BR>I was picturing myself crying the entire way. But now, for many reasons,
<BR>theis trip has turned into an expression of joy!!! Great big huge
<BR>bucket-loads of joy!!!!! I won't be walking, or crying, or sagging along.
<BR>I've decided I will turn cartwheels or maybe just skip all the way!
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<BR>Corny, aren't I?!
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<BR>Lots of love,
<BR>Gabrielle</FONT></HTML>