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 (This message was edited by ise-sky on 04-27-04 @ 4:24 pm EDT)

I'm a silly goose. Why did I think that you would be offended by my honest question? I wonder what, if anything, I could ask you that would offend! Do you consider yourself pretty thick skinned? I know you're sensitive, but you keep such a rational, cool head even when I think you'll finally get pissed off at me for asking something blunt or saying something that needs reform. I don't know how you do it!

Wow! Have you started exercising regularly? I didn't know that. I read somewhere, on your webpage maybe, that you had started taking half-mile walks down the block and back. What do you do for exercise? How often? That's GREAT! I'm ecstatic! It makes me so happy to hear that people are using their muscles, their joints, strengthening their heart and lungs and all that.

You know, I used to think that if I ever got to be overweight, I would be unhealthy. But I see many "overweight" people running marathons, jogging at dusk, doing way more than I can. And being skinny, I finally have realized, does not mean in shape! Skinniness doesn't automatically mean s/he is flexible, has endurance, has strength, or can jog or walk or dance without falling over in exhaustion.

Do I worry about diseases? Do I ever! All the time. I used to get horrible stomach pains in my worrier years -- when I was 11, 12, 13, 14 -- just thinking about cancer and AIDS. But no cancer runs in my family. And AIDS sure doesn't. Heh. Most of the women on Mum's side of the family have thyroid problems, though, and I really, really don't want to get that. But all my traits so far are strictly McMurtry, not Thompson.

Do any diseases run in your families, Zib, Ellie, Fea?

You've had a cold for 5 months?! You're not talking about the weird thing you had before camp last year that seemed like hives, are you? What kind of ailment is it? Wow...I didn't know that.

Tell me all about your fasting, too!