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Alice sent me an email about some friends and coworkers who are participating in the 3 Day Breast Cancer Walk in San Francisco. They’ve been kind enough to include Alice’s mom as one of the people they’ve chosen to remember. I’ll put the text of the email below and if you feel like donating you can click this link. There is also an offline donation option if you prefer.

Hi……

I’m taking an amazing journey and I’d like you to support me. Thousands of women and men are going to walk 60 miles over the course of three days to raise money for breast cancer research and community outreach through Susan G. Komen for the Cure and the National Philanthropic Trust Breast Cancer Fund.

Our team A2D2 is walking in memory/support of Erin Bray,  Carla Pipes-Wolf, and Sarah Andreassen. Together, our team is planning on raising at least $25,000 to help end breast cancer forever. Personally, I am going to raise $3,500 of that, so I need your help.  You may donate either in my name or the team’s name.

Because every woman is at risk for breast cancer - a disease that strikes at random and for which the causes and cures are still unknown - I know that every moment counts. Without a cure, an estimated 25 million women around the world will be diagnosed with breast cancer - and 10 million could die - over the next 25 years.

Please take a moment to go online to http://www.the3day.org/, and select Donate Now to search for my personal fundraising webpage. If you donate online, you can spread your donation out over four monthly payments.

Thank you for your support and concern and thank you for your support for my continuing journey.

Love,
Annette 

P.S. Don’t wait. Please donate today.

I post relatively frequently about my love of digital downloads, the long tail, and how easy access + reasonable prices actually increase purchasing despite the music industry’s complaints that Apple has destroyed their market so I won’t rehash all that here with some long post. You can click here to see the previous posts.

All I want to say is this… I bought Scotty Doesn’t Know because it took one or two clicks and cost 99 cents. Would I have even thought about it in the old model? Nope. It is a funny song and I like being able to support the artists but it shouldn’t cause me pain to do so.