<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 1/23/2003 11:04:35 PM Eastern Standard Time, athenaaBROOKSDATA.NET writes:<BR>
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<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">Just out of curiosity, are people able to say why they decided to walk the<BR>
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Deanna Bowling<BR>
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</FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">Good point. For me, a future peregrino, I'm doing the Camino for a combo of things, out of which religious (clarity, guidance, discernity, gratitude, prayer) is numero uno. Then there's what now seems to me cliche sounding: sipiritual, inner adventure, senderismo, and...Let's see what happens. But then, whatever reason(s) one does it for, they are valid for him/her. And that needs to be recognized and respected. So often one starts out doing things for one reason and then things turn out differently from what was expected...<BR>
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Xosé Manuel<BR>
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