Every so often, I get the most random e-mails to my gmail account. Seems that people just guess at addresses sometimes or maybe gmail’s server goofs. Or maybe this is the next level of spam–seemingly real personal messages that have some secret sales pitch embedded? Hmmm…

Here’s the text of the latest one:

Dear Carol,

I got your name from Hope, Floyd’s mom. She said that your daughter
Zoey will be starting kindergarten at Monroe in the Fall, as is my
daughter Rosalie. Rosie expressed interest in meeting other kids who
will be going to her school so I just wanted to see if you want to
meet up one day at the playground (Bernal) to get the girls
acquainted. We only know one other person who will be starting at
Monroe so Rosie thought it would be good to get to know some of her
other classmates!

Anyways, let me know what you think! Hopefully we can meet up sometime–

v.
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"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot
drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence
multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending
spiral of destruction….The chain reaction of evil–hate begetting hate,
wars producing more wars–must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the
dark abyss of annihilation."
-Martin Luther King, 1963