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<DIV>Avin,</DIV>
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<DIV>I am sorry for all your troubles.</DIV>
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<DIV>As someone who has lost things to fire (the house I grew up in) and by my own irresponsible behavior [things placed in storage (and lost by not keeping up on the storage fee) after my parents died including an antique oak desk given as a wedding present from my grandmother and all my father's books - leather bound books, first editions, autographed books, Audubon books from the 1800's, and all my high school year books], I understand the pain you are feeling. I lost everything back in the late 80's, yet I sometimes still agonize over it. I understand it's only "stuff", but it still smarts. Logan tells me to meditate on the "Ancient Chinese Proverb": Over the course of a long life, a wise man finds it necessary to abandon his baggage by the side of the road from time to time. If you ask me, that idea sucks, but it's all I've got. </DIV>
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<DIV>Take comfort in the belief that the perpetrator(s) of the evil done to you incurred lots of bad karma and will be reincarnated as a dung beetle next time around.<BR><BR>Madelina</DIV></BODY>