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Date Posted: 21:48:20 12/14/01 Fri
Author: Anonymous
Subject: "Slow Dance", A Poem and Last Request

This amazing young girl, who is terminally ill with cancer, has, in her last request, transformed her loss and sorrow into a powerful song of hope for others. Her last request is that you pass it on.

She is an angel on earth to have found this way to touch so many people with her gift of poetry and insight, and I hope you will pass it on, and send her loving and heartfelt prayers, as she, without even realizing it, has sent her heartfelt rays to warm so many lives.


"(This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital.

It was sent by a medical doctor - make sure to read what is in the closing statement AFTER THE POEM.)

Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?

You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say hi

You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift....
Thrown away.

Life is not a race.
Do it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.

Dear All:
PLEASE pass this mail on to everybody you know. It is the request of a special little girl who will soon leave
this world as she has cancer. Thank you for your effort, this isn't a chain letter, but a choice for all of us to save a little girl that's dying of a serious and fatal form of cancer.

Please send this to everyone you know or don't know. This little girl has 6 months left to live, and as her
dying wish, she wanted to send a letter telling everyone to live their life to the fullest, since she never will. She'll never make it to prom, graduate from high school,
or get married and have a family of her own.

By you sending this to as many people as possible, you can give her and her family a little hope. PLEASE PASS ON AS A LAST REQUEST."

Dr. Dennis Shields, Professor
Department of Developmental and Molecular
Biology 1300 Morris Park
Avenue
Bronx, New York 10461

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