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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=michaeltheloud@yahoo.com href="mailto:michaeltheloud@yahoo.com">Wayne
Hamberg</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=artemisia@lists.gallowglass.org
href="mailto:artemisia@lists.gallowglass.org">Kingdom of Artemisia mailing
list</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 22, 2003 9:07
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Artemisia] Challenge
Coins</DIV>
<DIV>PS> I PERSONALLY had a king tell me that I would never get an AoA
because of who</DIV>
<DIV> my knight was. Fifteen years
later I am still playing as my schedule permits but</DIV>
<DIV> when it comes to the SCA or trying
to do my dream, most people would tell me to</DIV>
<DIV> try for a possible
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.</DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Tempus Sans ITC" color=#000080>Y'know, I once had
somebody tell me the exact same thing. Two months later I received my
AoA, and had every Artemisian Peer present, and most others who knew me, tell
me they thought I already had it, or they would have put me in sooner. I
know friends of mine have been told similar things, but I don't believe it,
since my friends do so well, many of them "surpassing" me. Hell, I gave
Tearlach (Damian too, I think) his first fighting lesson, and we all know what
happened there.</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Tempus Sans ITC" color=#000080>A woman I respect and
admire more than almost anyone once told me "it's not who you know, it's what
they see you do." If all anyone ever sees is you bitching about awards
on the Aerie, what award would you possibly be
earning?</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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<DIV><STRONG><FONT face="Tempus Sans ITC" color=#000080>Morgan Blaidd
Du<BR>Protege and Ghillie to<BR>Baron James Ulrich MacKellar and<BR>Baroness
Rachel Ashton</FONT></STRONG></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>