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 ^^^^^^^^^^*^^ JACK SUGHRUE, Box
 459, East Douglas, MA 01516*

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 Dear Editor,

 First, thank you for continuing the
 newsletter exchange during the long
 time I was mending.

 Second, in case you were unaware of
 my accident but thought I was late
 and lazy with the latest IMPACT/99
 articles, let me explain what
 happened.  I was on my way home from
 school on a bright, sunshiny
 afternoon in May, when a tree leaped
 in front of my brand new car.  Car
 was totalled, but I wasn't.  My head
 was badly smashed in.  There was a
 distinct possibility that I would
 lose my left eye and/or suffer severe
 brain damage if I lived.  I lived.
 The left eye is not perfect, but it
 is see-able and will remain with me.
 Regarding the brain damage: my wife
 said, "If Jack has brain damage, who
 would know?" 

 The doctors, who were fantastic, put
 nine metal plates in my head to hold
 it together and performed lots of
 other miracles.  Anyway, I appear to
 be getting back to what is normal for
 me.  It's just taking a very long
 time, during which I went through
 exceedingly long (for an impatient
 patient like myself) times when I
 could not read or compute! I sure had
 a chance to reprioritize my life,
 however, and dropped lots of things
 that were not important.  But the
 things most important to me (family,
 teaching, reading, writing, and, of
 course, computing) are where my time
 and energy and money will go.

     So, I'm back.  I missed my TI-ing
 and all my TI friends.  I'm back to
 work and computing on a bit of a
 limited basis.  My energy level
 hasn't worked its way up to the old
 levels, yet, but the enthusiasm for
 my 4A, however, is even higher than
 before, if that is possible.

 Third, if you're interested in
 receiving a FREE (no gimmicks)
 monthly two-page article (with a
 graphical third page now and then)
 just keep me on your newsletter
 mailing list.  I'll send them in
 batches similar to these.  You don't
 have to publish them, if you don't
 care to, but I'll continue the
 exchange as long as your group would
 like to receive them.  I was hoping
 to start #1 with your January issue
 but couldn't make it.  I would
 appreciate your not publishing these
 articles BEFORE these 1990 dates: Feb
 - #1; Mar - #2; and all the way up to
 Dec - #11 for 1990.  Publishing
 themafterthese dates isn't a
 problem.  Thank you for your courtesy
 in this matter.

     And, fourth, the TI Community
 world wide was so incredibly
 supportive and caring that my
 recovery was undoubtedly speeded up
 because of this show of sensitivity.
 There is no way I could ever begin to
 thank all the hundreds of individuals
 and groups who wrote and called and
 sent all kinds of TI thingies.  But I
 most enjoyed the steady flow of
 newsletters, read to me by my wife
 and kids until I could read them
 myself.  I felt connected and a part
 of something definitely worthwhile.

 Newsletter editors are the soul of
 this community, without which we
 couldn't exist as an entity.  I hope
 you are able to continue this
 monumental (and not always rewarding)
 effort.  You are very much needed by
 all of us.

     Again, thank you for your
 patience.  Hope you find NEWAGE
 interesting and useful.

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