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Subject: Irish Luck - Remember to send it back!,
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> I want this back. It DOES work.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> "I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life."
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> "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.
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> "Is that your son?" the nobleman asked.
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> "Yes," the farmer replied proudly.
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> "I'll make you a deal. Let me provide him with the level of education
>my own 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.
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> Farmer Fleming's son attended the very best schools and in time,
>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.
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> Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog
>was stricken with pneumonia.
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> What saved his life this time? Penicillin.
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> The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His son's name?
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> Sir Winston Churchill.
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> Someone once said: What goes around comes around.
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> Work like you don't need the money.
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> Love like you've never been hurt.
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> Dance like nobody's watching.
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> Sing like nobody's listening.
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> Live like its Heaven on Earth.
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> It's National Friendship Week. Send this to
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> Everyone you consider A FRIEND.
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> Pass this on, and brighten someone's day.
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>AN IRISH FRIENDSHIP WISH: You had better send
> this back!! Good Luck!
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