Posted by Frans Godfried (212.83.91.126) on September 07, 2001 at 11:41:51:
In Reply to: What to Say to People posted by John Townsend on September 06, 2001 at 19:45:37:
Following is an e-mail I received from a friend after I had given him WWW.CH.com
Dear Frans,
It was only recently that I found out about the full extent of your malady. It was a startling revelation about the astonishing torment that you have been living through daily all these years with no one of your acquaintance having cognizance of the dept an darkness off your torture. Suddenly e-mail was not enough - I had to talk with you and hear about this hell you were experiencing from your own lips, and tender my responses and consolations vocally. The revelation was like a thunderclap - I had never ever heard of the malady before, and it seemed a sin that the general public was permitted to be so unaware of this terrible suffering afflicting our fellow man. Please accept my sincere assuance that the mere contemplation of so much time spent in ignorance of your true and intense suffering, is most regrettable to me, I feel dismally downcast. Very truly yours, Allan