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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='min-width: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Larry Perry [mailto:larryperry@performancepress.ccsend.com] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Larry Perry<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 10, 2021 8:11 AM<br><b>To:</b> mmoore11@kent.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> EXT: Folded Napkin and Stevie<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:.75pt'><span style='font-size:1.0pt'><img id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://r20.rs6.net/on.jsp?ca=96657aec-0616-48b9-b299-db852f3098d2&a=1103316066373&c=6f49fc70-74b9-11eb-9d75-fa163e24df6a&ch=6f4b0606-74b9-11eb-9d75-fa163e24df6a"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;word-wrap: break-word'><div><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:white;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td style='padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=610 style='width:457.5pt;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:11.25pt 3.75pt 11.25pt 3.75pt'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;word-wrap: break-word'><tr><td valign=top style='background:#869198;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;background:#869198;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='background:#E6E6E6;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in'><div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 15.0pt 7.5pt 15.0pt'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-size:21.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Letter from Larry</span></i><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#717A80'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div></div></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;background:#EB4C39;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;word-wrap: break-word'><div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 15.0pt 7.5pt 15.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:white'>Wednesday<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;color:white'>November 10, 2021<o:p></o:p></span></b></p></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;word-wrap: break-word'><div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 15.0pt 7.5pt 15.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>Good morning Everyone:</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>With Thanksgiving just around the corner I thought you could use today's</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='color:#403F42'>story is a reminder of all the things we are thankful for.</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'>*******<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>The Folded Napkin - A Truck Stop Story"</span></i></b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>If this doesn't light your fire, your wood is wet!</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>I try not to be biased, but I had my doubts about hiring Stevie. His </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>placement counselor assured me that he would be a good, reliable</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>busboy. But I had never had a mentally handicapped employee </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>and wasn't sure I wanted one. I wasn't sure how my customers </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>would react to Stevie.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>He was short, a little dumpy with the smooth facial features and</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>thick-tongued speech of Down’s Syndrome. I wasn't worried </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>about most of my trucker customers because truckers don't </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>generally care who buses tables as long as the meatloaf platter</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>is good and the pies are homemade.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>The ones who concerned me were the mouthy college kids </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>traveling to school; the yuppie snobs who secretly polish their </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>silverware with their napkins for fear of catching some dreaded</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>'truck stop germ'; the pairs of white-shirted business men on</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>expense accounts who think every truck stop waitress wants</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>to be flirted with. I knew those people would be uncomfortable</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>around Stevie so I closely watched him for the first few weeks..</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>I shouldn't have worried. After the first week, Stevie had my </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>staff wrapped around his stubby little finger, and within a </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>month my truck regulars had adopted him as their official truck</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>stop mascot.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>After that, I really didn't care what the rest of the customers</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>thought of him. He was like a 21-year-old in blue jeans and Nikes,</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>eager to laugh and eager to please, but fierce in his attention to </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>his duties. Every salt and pepper-shaker was exactly in its place</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>not a breadcrumb or coffee spill was visible when Stevie got </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>done with the table. </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>Our only problem was persuading him to wait to clean a table</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>until after the customers were finished. He would hover in the </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>background, shifting his weight from one foot to the other, </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>scanning the dining room until a table was empty. Then he would </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>scurry to the empty table and carefully bus dishes and glasses </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>onto his cart and meticulously wipe the table up with a practiced</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>flourish of his rag.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>If he thought a customer was watching, his brow would pucker </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>with added concentration. He took pride in doing his job exactly</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>right, and you had to love how hard he tried to please each and</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>every person he met.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>Over time, we learned that he lived with his mother, a widow who</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>was disabled after repeated surgeries for cancer. They lived on </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>their Social Security benefits in public housing two miles from the</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>truck stop. Their social worker, who stopped to check on him </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>every so often, admitted they had fallen between the cracks. Money </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>was tight, and what I paid him was probably the difference between</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>them being able to live together And Stevie being sent to a group</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>home. That's why the restaurant was a gloomy place that morning </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>last August, the first morning in three years that Stevie missed work.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>He was at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester getting a new valve or </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>something put in his heart. His social worker said that people </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>with Downs Syndrome often have heart problems at an early </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>age so this wasn't unexpected, and there was a good chance </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>he would come through the surgery in good shape and be back </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>at work in a few months.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>A ripple of excitement ran through the staff later that morning when </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>word came that he was out of surgery, in recovery, and doing fine.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>Frannie, the head waitress, let out a war hoop and did a little </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>dance in the aisle when she heard the good news.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>Bell Ringer, one of our regular trucker customers, stared at the</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>sight of this 50-year-old grandmother of four doing a victory shimmy</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>beside his table.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>Frannie blushed, smoothed her apron and shot Bell Ringer a </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>withering look.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>He grinned. 'OK, Frannie , what was that all about?' he asked..</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>'We just got word that Stevie is out of surgery and going to be okay.'</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>'I was wondering where he was. I had a new joke to tell him. </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>What was the surgery about?'</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>Frannie quickly told Bell Ringer and the other two drivers sitting</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>at his booth about Stevie's surgery then sighed: 'Yeah, I'm glad </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>he is going to be OK,' she said.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>'But I don't know how he and his Mom are going to handle all </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>the bills. From what I hear, they're barely getting by as it is.' </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>Bell Ringer nodded thoughtfully, and Frannie hurried off to </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>wait on the rest of her tables. Since I hadn't had time to round </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>up a busboy to replace Stevie and really didn't want to replace</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>him, the girls were busing their own tables that day until we </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>decided what to do.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>After the morning rush, Frannie walked into my office. She had </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>a couple of paper napkins in her hand and a funny look on her </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>face.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>'What's up?' I asked.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>'I didn't get that table where Bell Ringer and his friends were </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>sitting cleared off after they left, and Pony Pete and Tony Tipper</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>were sitting there when I got back to clean it off,' she said.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>'This was folded and tucked under a coffee cup.'</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>She handed the napkin to me, and three $20 bills fell onto my</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>desk when I opened it. On the outside, in big, bold letters, </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>was printed 'Something For Stevie'.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>'Pony Pete asked me what that was all about,' she said, 'so I told</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>him about Stevie and his Mom and everything, and Pete looked</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>at Tony and Tony looked at Pete, and they ended up giving me this.'</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>She handed me another paper napkin that had 'Something </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>For Stevie' scrawled on its outside. Two $50 bills were tucked</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>within its folds. Frannie looked at me with wet, shiny eyes, </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>shook her head and said simply: 'Truckers!!'</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>That was three months ago. Today is Thanksgiving, the first day </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>Stevie is supposed to be back to work.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>His placement worker said he's been counting the days until the</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>doctor said he could work, and it didn't matter at all that it was a</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>holiday. He called ten times in the past week, making sure we</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>knew he was coming, fearful that we had forgotten him or that</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>his job was in jeopardy.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>I arranged to have his mother bring him to work. I then met them </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>in the parking lot and invited them both to celebrate his day back</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>Stevie was thinner and paler, but couldn't stop grinning as he </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>pushed through the doors and headed for the back room where </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>his apron and busing cart were waiting</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>'Hold up there, Stevie, not so fast,' I said. I took him and his mother </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>by their arms. 'Work can wait for a minute. To celebrate you </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>coming back, breakfast for you and your mother is on me!'</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>I led them toward a large corner booth at the rear of the room.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>I could feel and hear the rest of the staff following behind as we</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>marched through the dining room. Glancing over my shoulder, </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>I saw booth after booth of grinning truckers empty and join the </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>procession. We stopped in front of the big table. Its surface was</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>covered with coffee cups, saucers and dinner plates, all sitting </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>slightly crooked on dozens of folded paper napkins 'First thing </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>you have to do, Stevie, is clean up this mess,' I said. I tried to </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>sound stern.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>Stevie looked at me, and then at his mother, then pulled out one </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>of the napkins. It had 'Something for Stevie' printed on the</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>outside. As he picked it up, two $10 bills fell onto the table.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>Stevie stared at the money, then at all the napkins peeking from </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>beneath the tableware, each with his name printed or scrawled </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>on it. I turned to his mother. 'There's more than $10,000 in cash </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>and checks on that table, all from truckers and trucking companies</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>that heard about your problems.. 'Happy Thanksgiving.'</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>Well, it got real noisy about that time, with everybody hollering </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>and shouting, and there were a few tears, as well.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>But you know what's funny? While everybody else was busy </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>shaking hands and hugging each other, Stevie, with a big, big </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>smile on his face, was busy clearing all the cups and dishes</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>from the table....</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>Best worker I ever hired.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>Plant a seed and watch it grow..</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>At this point, you can bury this inspirational message or </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>forward it, fulfilling the need!</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>If you shed a tear, hug yourself, because you are a compassionate </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>.</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'> </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>Well.. Don't just sit there! Send this story on! Keep it going, this </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>is a good one! </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><i><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#26282A'>Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.</span></i><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#BF3F2F'>May God Bless and keep you and don't forget that GOD</span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:13.5pt;color:#BF3F2F'>LOVES YOU and is WITH YOU ALWAYS!</span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><i><span style='font-size:15.0pt;color:#BF3F2F'>Larry</span></i></b><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#403F42'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><o:p> </o:p></p><div align=center><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td width="100%" valign=top style='width:100.0%;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in;word-wrap: break-word'><div><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%;border-collapse:collapse;min-width: 100%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:7.5pt 15.0pt 7.5pt 15.0pt'><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#7F7F7F'>NOTE: This letter is sent to anyone interested in receiving these inspirational notes. 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