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Re: Tad bit of inspiration OFF PCOS TOPIC - but interesting
From: Koolaide (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Mon, 30 Oct 2000 22:26:28 -0600 (CST)
Hey Kals... what an awesome story !! Made me feel better all ready. As
you can probably see I'm stuck to the computer chair. Just don't feel
like doing much. Thanks for your support and responses. How are you
doing? Things okay? Let me know... later.. B
At Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Kallie wrote:
>
>>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.
>
>>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. "I want to
>repay
>you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life."
>
>>"No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer replied,
>waving off the offer.
>
>Wow - you just never know - Nighty night and Happy Hallows Eve.
>
>>At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel.
>
>>"Is that your son?" the nobleman asked.
> >
>>"Yes," the farmer replied proudly.
>
>>"I'll make you a deal. Let me take him and give him a good education. If
>the lad is anything like his father, he'll grow to a man you can be
>proud
>of." And that he did.
>
>>In time, Farmer Fleming's son 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.>
>
>>Years afterward, the nobleman's son was stricken with pneumonia. What
>saved him? Penicillin.
>
>>The name of the nobleman? Lord Randolph Churchill. His son's name? Sir
>Winston Churchill.
>
>--
>Kallie
> If you think you are a leader - look behind you, if no one is there - you are just taking a walk.
>
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