<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>I have been meaning to type this out for everyone involved in rescue. It is from my daughters school. They collect pennies for patients. And this is it ...</DIV>
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<DIV>Thank you .... the Starfish Poem</DIV>
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<DIV>As I walked along the seashore.</DIV>
<DIV>This young boy greeted me.</DIV>
<DIV>He was tossing stranded starfish</DIV>
<DIV>Back to the deep blue sea.</DIV>
<DIV>I said, "Tell me why you bother.</DIV>
<DIV>Why waste your time this way?</DIV>
<DIV>There's a million stranded starfish</DIV>
<DIV>Does it matter, anyway?"</DIV>
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<DIV>And he said, "It matter to this one.</DIV>
<DIV>It deserves a chance to grow.</DIV>
<DIV>It matter to this one.</DIV>
<DIV>I can't save them all I know.</DIV>
<DIV>But it matters to this one.</DIV>
<DIV>I'll return it to the sea.</DIV>
<DIV>It matter to this one.</DIV>
<DIV>And it matters to me."</DIV>
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<DIV>From the mouths of babes. And I have to say as a rescuer I brought home from the pound a skinny, well worn hound with scars and very little hair who was so skiddish she cringed when I went to pet her and four months later she is just gorgeous and everyone stops and wants to pet her and she lets most of them. Amazing the change in 4 months. True, some of them will not be beautiful again .... but many will .... mine is.</DIV>
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<DIV>--Dale</DIV></div></body></html>