In a message dated 3/19/01 10:38:35 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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 >>      Friendship
 >>
 >>      His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish
 >>      farmer. One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he
 >>heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog. He dropped his tools and
 >>ran to  the bog.
 >>
 >>      There, mired to his waist in black muck, was a
 >>      terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself. Farmer
 >>Fleming saved the lad from what could have been a slow and terrifying
 >>death.
 >>
 >>      The next day, a fancy carriage pulled up to the
 >>      Scotsman's sparse surroundings.  An elegantly dressed nobleman
 >>stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming
 >>had saved.
 >>
 >>      "I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved
 >>      my son's life."  "No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the
 >>Scottish farmer replied, waving off the offer.
 >>
 >>      At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the
 >>      door of the family  hovel.  "Is that your son?" the nobleman asked.
 >>"Yes,"  the farmer replied  proudly.  "I'll make you a deal. Let me
 >>provide him with  the level of education my son will enjoy. If the lad is
 >>anything like his father, he'll no doubt  grow  to  be a man we both will
 >>be proud of."
 >>
 >>      And that he did.
 >>
 >>      Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools
 >>      and in time, he graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in
 >>  London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted
 >>Sir  Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin.
 >>
 >>      Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was
 >>      saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia. What saved his life
 >>this  time?  Penicillin.
 >>
 >>      The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His son's name?
 >>Sir Winston Churchill.
 >>
 >>      Someone once said: What goes around comes around.
 >>
 >>      "Work like you don't need the money."
         "Love like you've never been hurt."
 >>      "Dance like nobody's watching."
 >>      "Sing like nobody's listening."
 >>      "Live like it's Heaven on Earth. "
 >> >>
Thought you might like this, Shauna!  Love you, MOM