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From: Paul Goldstein
Date: 22 Oct 2004
Time: 07:52:38 -0500
Remote Name: 62.97.250.9
I want to thank you very much for your most kind and very wonderful comments. It would have been great if I could have truly received this letter at age 16 (and believed also that this really did come from my future self!) But I do hope that other young people in similar circumstances as I was will have a chance to read these words, and that this will help instill hope in them as they face the challengess in their own lives. To answer your question: I kept a lot of daily journals in later years, especially during my years in undergraduate college and early years in graduate school, with the main emphasis being on my battle with stuttering and how that was affecting my daily life. (As my struggles became less intense and frustrating as the years went by, and as I started to gain some measure of self-satisfaction, I didn't see the need to continue with these journals.) In high school, though, I didn't keep any daily journals or records. I now wish I did. At that time I was somewhat fearful and anxious about my future life, and I think that this may have been a factor in why I didn't record any thoughts at that time as to what my future may bring.