Slow Dance
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Date: July 15, 2006 05:30AM
Slow Dance
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> This is a poem written by a teenager with cancer.
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> She wants to see how many people get her poem.
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> It is quite the poem. Please pass it on.
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> This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New
> York Hospital.
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> It! was sent by
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> a medical doctor - Make sure to read what is in the closing
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> SLOW DANCE
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> Have you ever watched kids
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> On a merry-go-round?
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> Or listened to the rain
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> Slapping on the ground?
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> Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
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> Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
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> You better slow down.
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> Don't dance so fast.
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> Time is short.
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> The music won't last.
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> Do you run through each day
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> On the fly?
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> When you ask How are you?
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> Do you hear the reply?
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> When the day is done
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> Do you lie in your bed
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> With the next hundred chores
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> Running through your head?
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> You'd better slow down
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> Don't dance so fast.
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> Time is short.
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> The music won't last.
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> Ever told your child,
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> We'll do it tomorrow?
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> And in your haste,
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> Not see his
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> sorrow?
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> Ever lost touch,
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> Let a good friendship die
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> Cause you never had time
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> To call and say,"Hi"
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> You'd better slow down.
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> Don't dance so fast.
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> Time is short.
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> The music won't last.
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> When you run so fast to get somewhere
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> You miss half the fun of getting there.
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> When you worry and hurry through your day,
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> It is like an unopened gift....
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> Thrown away.
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> Life is not a race.
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> Do take it slower
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> Hear the music
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> Before the song is over.
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> FORWARDED E-MAILS ARE TRACKED TO OBTAIN THE TOTAL COUNT.
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> Dear All:
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> PLEASE pass this mail on to everyone you know - even to those
> you don't know! It is the request of a special girl who will
> soon leave this world due to cancer.
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> This young girl has 6 months left to live, and as her dying
> wish, she wanted to send a letter telling everyone to live
> their life to the fullest, since she never will.
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> She'll never make it to prom, graduate from high school, or
> get married and have a family of her own.
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> By you sending this to as many people as possible, you can
> give her and her family a little hope, because with every name
> that this is sent to, The American Cancer Society will donate
> 3 cents per name to her treatment and recovery plan. One guy
> sent this to 500 people! So I know that we can at least send
> it to 5 or 6. It's
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> not even your money, just your time!
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> PLEASE PASS ON AS A LAST REQUEST.
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> Dr. Dennis Shields, Professor
> Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology
> 1300 Morris Park Avenue
> Bronx, New York 10461
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