From the Houghton-Mifflin-Share the Spirit Home Page
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     **MISSION ACCOMPLISHED**
     With Your Help The Campaign Has Reached Its Goal
     Over 2,000 Hospitalized Children Receive Books!

     Thanks to you, the Internet community,
     we have reached our goal of 50,000
     messages and Houghton Mifflin Interactive
     has donated 2,000 books to hospitalized
     children who can't be home for the holidays.
     In recognition of the amazing and
     voluminous show of support from people all
     over the world, HMI has sent an additional
     500 books to these children. As of January
     1, 1997, the campaign is officially over and
     we've closed the Share the Spirit inbox on
     this web site as well as the mailbox for
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     During the campaign, we encouraged people
     to share messages of favorite holiday
     thoughts and memories with the internet
     community. We hope you'll browse through
     some of the 63,247 heartwarming messages
     sent in by this year's participants.

     Many thanks to all who have participated.
     We appreciate your support.



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Subject: Fwd: Children's Hospitals book drive
Author:  Museum discussion list <[log in to unmask]> at Internet
Date:    8/28/97 3:07 PM


>>Children's Hospitals book drive program >>
>>Please read and follow instructions below.  It only takes a minute for >>a
good cause!
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>>Thanks
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>> Houghton-Mifflin publishing company is giving books to children's
>>hospitals; how many books they give depends on how many e-mails they >>receive
from people around the world.  For every 25 e-mails they >>receive, they will
give one (1) book. All you have to do is e-mail: >><[log in to unmask]> and type a
message saying "children's hospitals book >>drive program". Hope you can spare a
few seconds ... let your friends >>know.  So far they've only received 3,400
messages ... last year they >>got 23,000. I think it would be great if we could
kick it up to 30,000 >>. Please forward this mail to ANYONE you know.
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>>Thanks for your help
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