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From: Marija, Croatia
Date: 04 Oct 2006
Time: 11:24:13 -0500
Remote Name: 83.131.140.23
Hello Alan, it's nice to meet you again on this Conference. // I loved your paper, and wanted to give an example of my own: when I was little, I had to guy bread and meat to these little shops, where you had a counter, the salesman was standing behind it, I was waiting in line, people always coming behind me... sometimes I'd just walk away, seeing that the linbe behind me is getting too big and that many people would hear my stuttering; so we wouldn't eat meat that day :)// I had to phone my boyfriends on that home phone, having to introduce myself to the person who picked up the phone... Nowadays we have huge supermarkets where you can pick loaves of bread off of a shelf, like I dreamed when I was little. You can pick meat without uttering a word, you can send short messages by cell-phones, not having to make a phone call at all. Do I have to even start saying how internet has spread my communicating horizons??? I say BRAVO for technology. A few articles above Joseph from Uganda was describing his heart-beats and sweating while battling with speaking. I think the technology has helped me A LOT in staying more healthy. (My blood pressure gets pretty dangerously high when I'm in a no-way-out speaking situation.)