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To: Eddie Kim who wrote (37713)	4/13/1998 11:53:00 PM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176387

If it went Bankrupt you still might not have losses. Often they come back. Assuming the company doesn't survive, and distributes no assets to you upon it's dissolution, you would have a total loss indeed. At that point your shares no longer represent an existing company. This event is not contradictory to the ECON101 definition of paper losses in the least. AT this point, it becomes a real loss, as the potential in the paper is totally gone. And you didn't even have to sell...