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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>In a message dated 10/25/2007 12:46:03
P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, Brian.King@rotary.org writes:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p style='margin-left:2.0in'><b><i><font size=6 color="#ffcc00" face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#FFCC00;font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'>EVERY</span></font></i></b><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:3.5in'><b><i><font size=6 color="#ff9900" face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#FF9900;font-weight:bold;
font-style:italic'>ROTARIAN</span></font></i></b><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='margin-left:5.0in'><font size=2 color="#ff6600" face=Georgia><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#FF6600'>(Adapted from
“The Raven”)</span></font><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><b><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>Once upon a Rotary year-y, while
I pondered, growing a bit leery,<br>
Over whether every Rotarian, would give $100 or more.</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'> <br>
</span></font><b><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>My
mind raced, now more wary, suddenly what I saw was terribly scary.<br>
More so than ghosts or monsters or something rapping at my chamber door.</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'> <br>
</span></font><b><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>It
was the image of a child, paralyzed, crawling on a dirt floor.<br>
Only
this and nothing more.</span></font></b><font size=2 color="#333333"
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333333'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><b><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>Ah, but this child I did not
know, as she pained and suffered so.<br>
Would not someone else see she was not left upon that dirty floor?<br>
Rapidly my fear turned to sorrow for this child may have no tomorrow.<br>
She was just another crawler, helpless and always to be poor. </span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><br>
</span></font><b><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>Leaving
it to someone else, leaves her on that dirty floor.<br>
Nameless
and alone for evermore.</span></font></b><font size=2 color="#333333"
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333333'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><b><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>More images now, my fear
grew stronger; hesitating then no longer.</span></font></b><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'> <br>
</span></font><b><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>Poverty,
illness, hunger and so many victims of conflict and war.</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'> <br>
</span></font><b><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>So
many living a nightmare, with whom our good fortune we can share. </span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><br>
</span></font><b><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>No
water or food or one to care; no education, for millions no open door.</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'> <br>
</span></font><b><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>No
opportunity; no bright future, neither nor.<br>
Darkness
there and nothing more.</span></font></b><font size=2 color="#333333"
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333333'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><br>
</span></font><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333333'> </span></font><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'> <br>
</span></font><b><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>Who
will help those in need; this desperate call who will heed?</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'> <br>
</span></font><b><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>“Sir,"
said I, "or Madam”, truly your support I implore;<br>
Every Rotarian, everywhere, help end this chilling tale if you dare,</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'> <br>
</span></font><b><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>help
those in great despair, in our backyard and on another shore.</span></font></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'> <br>
</span></font><b><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>‘O
the ways you can help are so many, please do explore.<br>
And change the life of a child--forevermore!<br>
</span></font></b><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333333'> </span></font><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'> <br>
</span></font><b><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>And
every Rotarian, with no hesitation, responded without consternation,<br>
giving every year $100 and even more.<br>
And the children’s eyes have all the seeming, filled of hope; and
dreaming;</span></font></b><font size=2 color=black face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <br>
</span></font><b><font size=2 color="#333333" face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#333333;font-weight:bold'>their
smiles now beaming, as Rotarians’ generosity there was an outpour;<br>
And the lives of millions with so little to live for,<br>
shall
be lifted--forever and evermore!</span></font></b><font size=2 color=black
face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p align=right style='text-align:right'><i><font size=2 color=black
face=Georgia><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:black;
font-style:italic'> - Edgar Allen King</span></font></i><font size=2
color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><i><font size=6 color="#ff6600"
face=Georgia><span style='font-size:24.0pt;font-family:Georgia;color:#FF6600;
font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Happy Halloween!</span></font></i></b><font
size=2 color=black face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;
color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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