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From: Sarah
To: Dan

hey dan

i need some help. the run that me and jayne are doing is less than two weeks away and we're still only halfway to our target of raising 500 pounds, which frankly isn't that much and i'm a bit surprised we haven't managed to get there yet.

so i've slightly changed my strategy - i'm now sending out emails to everyone i know asking them to log on and donate one pound, because i think people feel like they'll be seen as cheap if they don't donate a reasonable amount, so some of them won't donate at all, and one pound would be better than nothing and add up quite easily, and EVERYONE can spare one pound, even skint people like me. and some of them will go to donate and think, well, maybe if i'm donating one pound, i can donate 1.50, or 2 pounds.

and i know you've already put a link up on your blog, which i greatly appreciate. but the thing is, i saw another news report on niger last night, and there were all these tiny tiny sick naked children, who just looked like skeletons with a bit of skin stretched over them, and it was so awful that i've just been sitting here paused at this part of the paragraph for ages trying to think how to describe it. so i think maybe i need to make a better effort to raise money.

so i was hoping maybe you could post a blog, or even just cut and paste this email and post it as a blog entry, because i'm pretty sure anyone that reads your blog can afford one pound, and some of them might know other people who could afford one pound, and even if only one person does it, that'll put us a pound closer than we are now.

and, that will be one less day you have to think of something to blog about.

i hope i don't sound too much like sally struthers, the woman that gets mocked on south park for doing tv appeals in africa while filling her face with cream cakes...! it's a bit tricky to ask for fundraising money without sounding like a self-righteous twat.

anyway, thanks!!

sarah

From: Dan
To: Sarah

I dunno, could you spruce up the e-mail a bit, maybe make it a bit funnier? Just kidding! I'll post it forthwith. Although I think you vastly overestimate the readership numbers of da blog. You'll be lucky to make three pounds off it. Oh, wait, I was counting you. Two pounds.

d

Come on, readership! Sarah's running 8km! That may not sound a lot to you, but if you'd ever seen Sarah run more than a few steps, you'd know that, for her, it'll feel like 80km! And if she gets the £500 she's aiming for, she's agreed to run topless! Okay, I may have made that last bit up, but it's a good idea!

d