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Regards, Jim

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From today’s mail:

DEAR EMAIL OWNER,

This is to inform you that we have been working towards the eradication of fraudsters
and scam Artists in Africa with the help of the Organization of African Unity (AU) United Nations
(UN), European Union (EU). We have been able to track down some scam artist in various
parts of African countries which includes (Nigeria, Republic of Benin, Ghana and Senegal with
cote d’ivoire ) and they are all in Government custody now, they will appear
International Criminal Court (ICC) soon for Justice.

During the course of investigation, they were able to recover some funds from these scam
artists and IMF organizations have ordered the funds recovered to be shared among the 10 Lucky
people listed around the World as compensation. This notice has been directed to you because
your email address was found in one of the scam Artists file and computer hard-disk while the
investigation, maybe you have been scammed.

You are therefore being compensated with sum of $1.5M valid into an (ATM Card Number ****************)
Since your email address is among the lucky beneficiaries who will receive a compensation funds,
we have arranged your payment to be paid to you through ATM VISA CARD and deliver to your postal
address with the Pin Numbers as to enable you withdrawal maximum of $2,000 on each withdrawal from
any Bank ATM Machine of your choice, until all the funds are exhausted.

The ATM Card with Security Pin Numbers shall be delivered to you using Express Mail Service (DHL).
The package is coming from Uganda . don’t forget to reconfirm your following information.

  1. Your Full Name:
  2. Address Where You want us to Send Your ATM Card
  3. Cell/Mobile Number:

We advise you to stop all communications with everyone regarding your payment as we
have short listed to deliver to you and now urge you to comply and receive your ATM Card funds.
Thanks for your understanding as you follow instructions while I wait to hear from you today.

Best Regards: Jim

“Many A Vanish’d Sight”

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“The Shaloms Slept Here” Yvette Silver 2004

Two items in the email today. First, word from my brother that the house we grew up in was torn down this week. It was accompanied by photos of the gaping nothing. As my brother wrote, “It was almost impossible to drive by without turning our heads to see the good old house that held so many memories. While it was no longer in our possession, the fact that the house still stood standing in the same place with its same exterior always felt reassuring and never felt like it was gone.”

The second thing that showed up in the inbox was Shakespeare’s Sonnet 30. Somehow this second message made it easier to deal with the first.

Sonnet 30

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought,
And with old woes new wail my dear time’s waste:

Then can I drown an eye, unus’d to flow,
For precious friends hid in death’s dateless night,
And weep afresh love’s long since cancell’d woe,
And moan th’ expense of many a vanish’d sight;

Then can I grieve at grievances foregone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o’er
The sad account of fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I new pay as if not paid before.

But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restor’d, and sorrows end.