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From: Steven Kaufman
Date: 16 Oct 2008
Time: 16:56:45 -0500
Remote Name: 64.12.116.135
Hello Anita, and good evening to you, Thank you so much for responding to my message! And I am very much appreciative of you deciding not to reveal what I was singing, but we can emphatically agree that it takes a very confident and secure man to do what he did haha. Whenever I think about all the pain and anguish I may have struggled with as a person who stutters in his adolescent and young adult years, I just think back to when I emotionally accepted my award for Volunteer of the Year and recalled the day of July 4, 1939, when Lou Gehrig, facing a terminal illness, spoke profound words: "I've been given a bad break, but I have an awful lot to live for. Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth." On my worst day, a person who stutters can feel that is their bad break and much worse. But there is a difference between the way we speak and the way we communicate, and it's not the same thing. I am the luckiest man on the earth to be part of such a powerful and amazing community. I will do anything for the NSA to make it grow to even higher heights! And I haven't forgotten about the Cup photo either....and I can't wait for the dance I owe you next year! Steven Kaufman