I know, I can't get through to my best friend on this subject. She insists on sending this stuff on. I tell her, "Imagine if everybody who received this did it. It would literally bring down the internet in a matter of a dozen or so chain links." It doesn't help.

>Add my mom (and all my relatives in fact) to the list. I have stopped asking her to refrain from sending me junk mail in order to maintain peace in the family... :o)
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>>>>>>Check the original post. But don't waste time over it, it's just a groan-worthy joke. ;-)
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>>>>>Well, I knew that the sickening, sickly syrup was perpotedly "from a friend" but reads like one of those schmalzy round-robins that I've now forbidden my Canadian (female) cousin from sending me. ...
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>>>>Actually "From a fiend".
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>>>Yes but the friend was probably just passing on the feel-good factor, and not the author?
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>>No matter, anybody who sent this to me would be considered a 'fiend'. I know I have to keep telling people not to clog the internet with this stuff. It's clogged enough. But do they listen?