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From: Liv Marit Dalen
Date: 10/5/02
Time: 6:03:22 AM
Remote Name: 193.217.132.23
Hi Russ, alive and bubbling as always, I see! It is great that you feel so good about yourself, but I really do wish that you would stop referring to stuttering as a "gift." You are indeed gifted, but the gifts you have are your outgoing personality, your courage, your good humor, your looks (you are attractive, you know(!) and that might well be the cause of your many female friends in NSA :-)) and your ability to cope with certain obstacles in your life, such as stuttering. Stuttering IS an obstacle, and people who are not gifted with your abilities in so many areas of life might feel discouraged by your success. They have been trying and trying and it hasn't got them anywhere near success. I'm very happy for you, but please try to rephrase your enthusiasm a little bit, and call a spade a spade. (By the way, or rather out of the way, the Norwegian word "gift" means either "poison" or "married", that's really something to reflect upon....)