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Name: Caromaline
Birthday: 6/2/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: Suraiya-colored coffee, car washes, guesstures, champagne, dim sum, good writing, and gorgeous weather
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Member Since:
9/16/2002
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| AIDS Walk SFHi Y'all! It's that time of year again where I shamelessly plead for your kind donations. Last year, I had a great experience fundraising and walking in solidarity with thousands of people--and thanks to many many humble donors, I was able to exceed my fundraising goal! This year, I hope to raise even more money for this cause.
The HIV/AIDS epidemic is a very important issue to me so I have set an ambitious fundraising goal again this year. I want to do as much as I can to make a difference in the lives of men, women, and children affected by HIV and AIDS. Even though there has been a lot of publicity about drug treatments which are prolonging some people's lives, they don't work for everyone and there is still no cure in sight. Moreover, young people are still getting infected at alarmingly high rates.
Will you please help me meet and exceed my fundraising goal again this year by sponsoring me for the AIDS Walk? Just click on the website address below to enter my personalized web page and charge your donation. Google will also match any funds I am able to raise, so your donation money will really go a long way!
Thank you in advance for supporting this important cause and for showing that you join me in wanting to end this epidemic.
- In the United States, one-quarter of those infected with HIV each year is unaware of their status.
- Worldwide, people under the age of 25 account for 50% of new HIV infections.
- Nearly 1,000 San Franciscans will become newly infected with HIV this year.
- San Francisco accounts for almost 20% of California's total number of AIDS cases.
STEP UP. STOP AIDS.
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okay, I'm ready to share now.
apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, plums, cherries, eggplant, and pine nuts...oh my!
As a small child, I loved cherries so much that I'd eat them by the bagful. Today at age 23, I can't even remember how cherries taste. You see, at some point during those early years, my body decided to rebel and I developed mild but intolerable allergies to the foods above that resulted in hot swollen itchiness in my mouth and throat and--in more extreme cases--crippling stomach aches.
Jump to just three months ago at a Christian conference in Kansas City, MO. After learning about my food allergies, a woman almost reflexively responded "Why don't you pray for healing?"  ...what? I mean I know God is all powerful and amazing and all that, but praying to the Almighty for allergies? Such a presumptuous idea had never entered my mind. After all, this is something petty that I've lived with for almost all of my conscious life. Why should I ask God for such a silly thing?.....but then again, why not? Now a mere three weekends ago. On the last night of my women's prayer group retreat, 7 remaining people
laid their hands on me and prayed intensely for my allergies. I myself hadn't perceived any sort of physical change to my body, and we eventually moved on. But the next morning, I remembered that prayer. And as other people anxiously watched on, I cut a big shiny red apple the same way I had seen my dad do it so many times before. And then with no expectations, I took a bite. and then another. and on and on until slowly slowly it dawned on me: now wait a second...this might really be happening. I'm eating an apple with absolutely no reaction. My God! I'm eating an apple! Soon after came the tears. That God would grant such a humble yet fervent request for no reason other than to pour down more and more joy, more and more freedom...I cannot begin to tell you how delicious that apple was. Since then, I have tried so many different varieties of previously forbidden fruit, and I've learned quite a lot along the way! I've learned that I absolutely love pears. I've learned that plums are too juicy to really cut. That you have to twist, not pull, two halves of a peach to get them apart. I've learned that I still can't eat some fruits and thats ok. And I've learned that not everyone knows how to rejoice with me and that's ok too. There's been so much to explore and reflect and learn, but at the end of the day, I keep finding myself returning to the same words: Praise praise God! Glory glory glory!
 Now when do cherries come into season? 
Song of Solomon 2:3
As an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men.
With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste. | | |
| My First Baseball Game in a DecadeGIANTS vs BRAVES @ AT&T Park  Here to cheer on the Braves are the original ATLiens!!   Yummy soggy fake cheese nachos  Apparently you flip your cap so ur team can win when they're down...too bad it didn't work "Oh I think it's racist, but I still like it"
It's been a long time since I've done the Tomahawk Chop.
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