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To: Mama Bear who wrote (514)	4/25/1999 4:54:00 PM
From: Mama Bear	Respond to of 1150

A four part story. What's a Million Dollars Between Friends? by: bathompson (47/M/Greenville, NC) 441 of 455 The following is a fictional Story.......... Cast of Characters: Miracles Inc................The Company Joe Investor................You, Me, The General Public Corporate Wenie.............Any one of several insiders Death Spiral................Holders of the Floorless Convertibles Hypester....................A Mysterious Insider Act One The story opens with Corporate Wenie and Death Spiral having coffee one morning on Death's yacht, Bahama Mama, somewhere in the Carribbean. The subject of the mornings discussion is how to walk away with a million dollars each, not go to jail, and live to do it again. Death has an idea about something called floorless. Corporate has a new corporation that just got NASDAQ approval and is selling miracles so the stock price and volume is rising every day. Two weeks later.....,

To: Mama Bear who wrote (514)	4/25/1999 4:55:00 PM
From: Mama Bear	Respond to of 1150

Joe Investor goes into work and checks his portfolio on the Internet. Curious as to why the stock in Miracles has dropped 15% overnight, he puts down his coffee and begins to type..... "IT IS ALL A MISTAKE. IT'S NOT TRUE" Shouts hypester on all the message boards. Joe pulls a Free Edgar and finds the S3's announcing the Floorless and the Insider sales. He panics and pulls up his Datek account. The sell at the market order takes 31 seconds. The stock price dropped another 15% while he was waiting..... "Short another $6 million" Spiral tells his broker. This time Spiral is in Milan for the Flower Festival. "These satelite phones are wonderful" he says as he kisses the woman one more time and pulls on his jacket. Miracles drops another 15%...... Miracles inc., announced today they have no knowlege of the reason for their stock dropping to under $.25. "Why, just last week, the price was over $16" says Corporate Wenie as he boards the corporate jet. Destination not revealed.................