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To: TobagoJack who wrote (2346)	11/22/2005 9:39:36 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217732

TJ, my experience of descendants is that they don't ask the questions I think they might. <it is quite likely that Hayes may one day ask you, "grandpa, why did you not buy gold?" and it is very likely that Coconut will say to me, "dad, thank you for the gold" > From what I've also seen, material well-being and gifts of trinkets and baubles don't earn a lot of thanks. It's the other stuff, abstract and ethereal, which gains appreciation, much like people are lined up at phragmented photon CDMA cyberphone shops around the world, but there are few queues for gold. They instinctively know what counts. Hayes just loves my magical little CDMA cyberphone with the music, lights and buttons [and it's not even a cyberphone really - just WAP on 1xRTT]. I have to explain that one shouldn't chew on it and suck it. I will see what he thinks of gold [I'm sure I can rustle some up though not in ingot form]. Material gifts even tend to lead to drugs and dissolution [in all too many cases] in a search for meaning, if not done with care. Mqurice