In a message dated 97-08-19 09:38:29 EDT, you write:

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 At 07:26 AM 8/19/97 -0500, you wrote:
 >I just realized something while going over this morning's mail...
 > 
 >Please note the following items of ill fortune which have befallen 
 >various among us this past week:
 >
 >-I've become blind in my right eye (and for those of you who e-mailed 
 >me about the simplicity of a detached retina, you already know that I 
 >spared the list the *gory* details of my condition)
 >
 >-Krista-san has been laid off work
 >
 >-Ichinohei Hitomi-san has mysteriously disappeared, and kami-sama 
 >knows who can tell us what happened
 >
 >-fanfic.com is scattered across White Wolf's apartment, its 
 >components snickering at him
 >
 
 -a good friend of mine, Sandi Hayden, female, 18, was killed in a car
 accident late last week.  I attended her funeral Friday morning.
 
 -one of my co-workers knew the diver that had perished in Cozumel<sp?>,
 Mexico (was a good friend of his).  He owned a diver shop here in Columbia,
 SC.
 
 -Bert's maternal grandmother perished over a week ago after an extended
 illness.
 
 >Everyone be on your guard this week, there's a bad moon rising, and I 
 >don't mean the Black Moon or an evil Tsukino Usagi.
 >
 
 I tend to agree with that assessment. >>

 I think I developed an ulcer....