“Making decision to have a child--it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.” Elizabeth Stone

My daughter amazes me. She’s just been through a roller coaster growth cycle. I’m going to share this vulnerable, recent event from her life that has beautifully illustrates a powerful life lesson. I have her permission to share this story with you.

It all started about six months ago when she began her senior year of high school. To give you some background, our daughter, who tends to be on reserved side, is not a risk taker, and attends a very small, private, alternative school in rural Vermont. There are 10 kids in her class and for most part they all socialize with each other.

It’s a close-knit group of students. There’s not a lot of a potential romantic option in such a small pond yet my daughter began to develop a crush on one of her classmates. As year progressed and social events increased and friendships deepened, her feelings for this boy deepened as well.

I was delighted she was talking to me about her experiences and feelings all along way. We spent many a conversation exploring how one deals with having feelings for someone when you’re uncertain if your feelings are to be returned. We discussed at length possible strategies for approaching conversation. We considered pros and cons of letting things naturally unfold vs. trying to second-guess where we thought this young man might be based on his interactions with her.

Over months we talked and talked. She expressed her hopes, her fear of rejection; ultimately, she feared that if she told truth of how she felt, it would ruin friendship, which was clearly valuable to her.

About a month ago tension was approaching fever pitch for her. The friendship had grown crush turned to love, and they were beginning to spend serious time together. She was filled with fantasy of how wonderful it would be if relationship moved to next level. Still she was unable to ask this young man seemingly simple question, “do you like me and want to be more than friends?”

I found this on a bulletin board and decided to try it. A little while back, I was browsing through newsgroups, just like you are now, and came across an article similar to this that said you could make thousands of dollars within weeks with only an initial investment of $6.00 or £6.00! So I thought, "Yeah right, this must be a scam", but like most of us, I was curious, so I kept reading. Anyway, it said that you send $1.00 or £1.00 to each of 6 names and address stated in article. You then place your own name and address in bottom of list at #6, and post article in at least 200 newsgroups. (There are thousands) No catch, that was it. So after thinking it over, and talking to a few people first, I thought about trying it. I figured: "what have I got to lose except 6 stamps and $/£6.00, right?" Then I invested measly $/£6.00. Well GUESS WHAT!?... Within 7 days, I started getting money in mail! I was shocked! I figured it would end soon, but money just kept coming in. In my first week, I made about £30.00. By end of second week I had made a total of over £1,000.00! In third week I had over £10,000.00 and it's still growing. This is now my fourth week and I have made a total of just over £42,000.00 and it's still coming in rapidly. It's certainly worth £/$6.00, and 6 stamps, I have spent more than that on lottery!! Let me tell you how this works and most importantly, WHY it works... Also, make sure you print a copy of this article NOW, so you can get information off of it as you need it. I promise you that if you follow directions exactly, that you will start making more money than you thought possible by doing something so easy!

Suggestion: Read this entire message carefully! (print it out or download it.) Follow simple directions and watch money come in!

It's easy. It's legal. And, your investment is only $/£6.00 (Plus postage)

IMPORTANT: This is not a rip-off; it is not indecent; it is not illegal; and it is 99% no risk - it really works! If all of following instructions are adhered to, you will receive extraordinary dividends.

PLEASE NOTE: Please follow these directions EXACTLY, and $/£50,000 or more can be yours in 20 to 60 days. This program remains successful because of honesty and integrity of participants. Please continue its success by carefully adhering to instructions. You will now become part of Mail Order business. In this business your product is not solid and tangible, it's a service. You are in business of developing Mailing Lists. Many large corporations are happy to pay big bucks for quality lists. However, money made from mailing lists is secondary to income which is made from people like you and me asking to be included in that list.

Here are 4 easy steps to success:

STEP 1: Get 6 separate pieces of paper and write following on each piece of paper "PLEASE PUT ME ON YOUR MAILING LIST." Now get 6 $/£1.00 bills or individual pound coins and place one inside EACH of 6 pieces of paper so money will not be seen through envelope (to prevent thievery). Next, place one piece of paper with money, above phrase and your name and address into each of 6 envelopes and seal them. You should now have 6 sealed envelopes, each with a piece of paper stating above phrase, your name and address, and one $/£1.00 bill/coin. What you are doing is creating a service. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY LEGAL! You are requesting a legitimate service and you are paying for it! Like most of us I was a little skeptical and a little worried about legal aspects of it all. So I checked it out with U.S. Post Office (1-800-725-2161) along with Royal mail based in U.K and they confirmed that it is indeed legal. Mail 6 envelopes to following addresses: : :

#1) Ken Fisher : Po Box 121 : Leesburg N5. 08327 USA

#2)K.A.Nilsen Import : :CO HAWKEN : :Ishavsveien : :9500 Alta : :Norway

#3)Hans A Westgaard : :Altaveien 248 : :9500 Alta : :Norway

#4) liu wang : : Snow Island : : Flat 7, Room 2, Block F : : Kings mill lane : : Huddersfield : : West Yorkshire : : HD1 3AW : : England

#5) Mark.A.Ashford : : 1A Cromwell road : : Polygon : : Southampton : : SO15 2JH : : England

#6) David Dodd : : 4 The Elms, Tallarn Green : : Nr Malpas : : Cheshire : : SY14 7HY : : England

STEP 2: Now take #1 name off list that you see above, move other names up (6 becomes 5, 5 becomes 4, etc...) and add YOUR Name as number 6 on list.