Subject: [FFML] Re: Curse of Silence 1.3 (Rough)
From: Edward Becerra
Date: 9/15/2000, 3:52 PM
To: Mad Hamlet , ffml@fanfic.com



	Mad Hamlet, I'd like to thank you. Deeply and
from the bottom of my heart.

	I have a friend. His name is Greg. And thanks
to Downs Syndrome, he'll never be more than six or
seven years old, mentally.

	One day in elementary school, I was being stomped
in the playground for the crime of being the local
nerd. Greg, in his innocence, came stumbling over and
pulled me up off the ground, scattering the bullies who
were beating me. The bullies had all been told by their
parents that "..if the dummy touches you, it'll rub off 
and YOU'LL be dummies TOO!" So they ran in fear.

	What did Greg want? He just wanted to know if I
would be his friend.

	That was over 30 years ago.

	Greg and I are still the best of friends, and I
do my best to look out for him. And your story brought
back to me all the reasons I've spent long sunny summer 
days just watching the grass grow with Greg.

	It also brought back all the whispers, all the
gossip, all the "Don't you know if you touch him, you'll
catch it too?!" filth that people spread about the 
mentally handicapped.

	Thank you, Mad. You've done a wonderful thing here
and I hope you'll continue it.

	Take care and keep writing.

	Ed Becerra

	"Dreamers may die, but the Dream is eternal..."



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