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>Her journey to VFP stardom began back in 1999. It was in a training room during one of our Award Winning VFP Training classes here in Raleigh that inspiration struck. It was after a week or so of putting up with me instructing the class that she had her epiphany, her breakthrough, her Eureka moment, "If this yahoo can become a VFP guru, than I surely can.".
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>And in that brief instant, a future MVP was born... < s >

Putting up with you? That's an understatement! It was awful each time my hard-earned "brownie points" were "accidentally" erased off the marker board. I was so disappointed.

But - I'll never forget the first time I answered a newsgroup question - I went home from class one evening and saw a question about something we had learned that day. I was thrilled that I understood the topic (as I recall it was Transactions) well enougn to be able to answer it.