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Let me give you a hint, since you're pretty new to FR. Folks will take you more seriously if you create an "about" page and tell us a bit about yourself. You registered on May 11th of 2003 (coincidentally, my birthday! LOL) so you've been here less than a year. There are a LOT of "opinions" here. Some I trust...many of those people, although I have never met them face to face, I would trust with my life: Squantos; Travis McGee; Shooter2.5. Because I know more than a little bit about them and in some cases, I personally know people who KNOW the freeper personally and professionally and I trust that person to that extent...well you get the idea. Anybody who is a regular freeper without an "about" page is of absolutely zero consequence when it comes to their opinion. These people I have mentioned in their exhibition of knowedge in the areas where I myself am conversant are experts. I recognize this and defer to their experience and expertise.

No of course I can't "prove" this is a kid or an adult. Can you "prove" there is a GOD? I can't, but I have absolute faith that a dead man got up out of a grave 2004 years ago next Sunday and said that I can too.

My opinion that this was not written by a kid is based on my vaild experience as a teacher for some 15 years (the last seven in an inner city high school). Some pigs are more equal than other pigs if you remember your Orwell. My point is that my experience and therefore my opinion as an educator trumps others if they're experience is in a different area. The opinion of a professional writer is just as valid as mine because they are tangentally connected. BTW, I write for publication as well, and I have a professional literary agent.

Anybody who is a regular freeper without an "about" page is of absolutely zero consequence when it comes to their opinion.

Yes, that is your opinion. It is my opinion that anyone who posts enough personal information about themselves on an "about" page so that they can be personally identified is not being wise.

No doubt you took the time to read the website for the organization that sponsored the letter. You did do that first, right ?

No of course I can't "prove" this is a kid or an adult.

Neither can I prove you are who you say you are but I can make an educated guess. Likewise, it is my opinion that the author of this letter is in fact a teen.

Anybody who is a regular freeper without an "about" page is of absolutely zero consequence when it comes to their opinion.

OMG! I'm doomed! I've been here since March of 2002 (lurking longer) and I've just been too busy (or just too lazy and disorganized) to deal with an 'about' page.

My bits and pieces are scattered about the board . . . :-D