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I am not gullible!! I really felt terrible after learning that Julie from Nigeria, who came to America 10 years ago and saved everything she earned cleaning lint from bellybuttons just to travel back to Nigeria so she could visit her family, one of which had a rare tropical brain cloud disease and could die at any moment. Julie had such terrible luck when she was robbed the day she got to Nigeria and the thieves stole everything she owned including several feminine sanitary napkins. If that wasn't bad enough, she crawled for 37 miles to the village where her family lived only to find out that her mother, father, her 17 1/2 brothers, 27 sisters, 2 cousins, their pet frog Herman and a very dear friend of Herman, a boll weevil affectionately known as Claire were tragically killed in an explosion at a factory where they manufactured itching powder and the tabs for soda cans. Destitute and with no one on God's earth to reach out to, Julie emailed me with her plight. As her tale of woe and desperation unfolded to me and her plea for just enough money so she could get to America once again because she forgot to tell her friend to water her plants... I ask you, how could you possibly turn this poor unfortunate woman away? Well fellow humans, I could not. I sent her everything I had as well as enough money so she could not only come back to America but so she could come to Pennsylvania where I live and be my wife. That was three years ago. Julie hasn't written back to me but I suspect that is because she has no access to the Internet as she is crawling back to America on her hands and knees in gratitude for my magnanimous generosity. Shame on you for thinking that someone like that is only trying to bilk you for money!
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"For there is no folly of the beast of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men." Herman Melville - Moby Dick I'm wearing my chicken suit and humming La Marseillaise.
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