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What Not To Send on Valentine’s Day

A friend of mine forwarded me a tearjerker of a chain letter about a little girl who goes to school and talks about her daddy who’s in heaven because he died at 9/11. I was thinking it’s a nice thought, so I won’t complain, even if it is a chain letter, until I looked at the end:

If you don’t send it to anyone, it means you’re
in a hurry and that you’ve forgotten your friends.

That’s got to win a prize as the most emotionally extortionate chain letter ever. Many real people died at 9/11; whoever dishonored their memory by writing this tidbit of melodrama should be ashamed.

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