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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=380562022-11012002>I have
yet to walk the Camino and heard about it 25 years ago in college history class.
I just wanted to comfort Gabrielle that mean words or words untimely spoken will
not deter me from my road. They are more like spice and spurs. Jesus knew
worse.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=380562022-11012002>More
though, I wanted to say that your last lines are very fragrant. Your blessings
and wakefulness encourage me. And I hope sayng it encourages others to keep
seeking. (But don't feel obligated to fill the list with yea or
nay).</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#0000ff face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=380562022-11012002>Peace, Rod White --
Philadelphia</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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face=Arial><FONT size=2><SPAN class=380562022-11012002><FONT
color=#0000ff> Gabrielle says </FONT></SPAN>. I should be
saddened to hear that something I uttered in heartfelt determination
influenced a pilgrim to not walk, to not experience the Camino. From
what we have going here, I would be a little afraid of walking, wondering if I
would encounter the same segregation and anger. I feel myself blessed
that I did not experience the Camino in that light. My Camino was filled
with support, laughter, tears, friendship and a complete willingness to
realize and actualize the facts that I am not the only person on the planet
and a person who has as much importance to the whole of it. That, in my
humble opinion, is called waking
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