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To: Eddie Kim who wrote (10726)	12/10/1997 5:19:00 PM
From: T.R.	Respond to of 97611

Eddie, I'm glad to hear you say you are relatively satisfied with Waterhouse... from what I've been hearing about some of the others it appeared to be one of the better options. I just glanced at Dell..can't believe how it turned toward the end...I think it ended down only about $2/shr. A stock I use to own and had a lot of success with took a ROYAL bath today...FASTENAL (FAST). A very solid company from my home town. I use to work for them when they were privately owned and had 19 stores. I've got a real horror story about how I could've owned about 20% for $25,000 when I was in my twenties...today's value would've been in the area of 15-20 million..oh well. The stock took a $10 per share hit because it missed earnings by 15%...they'll be back I'm sure. The CEO is quite a guy...he was written up in INC last month as the most frugile CEO in the country. I've seen the man work, he's extremely intelligent, VERY low profile and takes about $120,000/yr in wages (if memory serves me correctly)...hasn't taken a raise in years. T.R.