"The paper crane has become an international symbol of peace in recent years as a result of it's connection to the story of a young Japanese girl named Sadako Sasaki born in 1943 [...] Sadako was diagnosed with leukemia, "the atom bomb" disease.
Sadako's best friend told her of an old Japanese legend which said that anyone who folds a thousand paper cranes would be granted a wish. [...] She started to work on the paper cranes and completed over one thousand before dying on October 25, 1955 at the age of twelve." - The Sadako Story
Remember, there are plenty of other reasons for the season.
This has been a message from your friendly neighborhood Christ(mas)-killing agnostic of Jewish decent.
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Hey E, could you help me by posting this? "
You can help the homeless of San Francisco CA, Berkeley CA, and Oakland CA by donating socks. Yeah, socks. www.sockpirates.org is a group of pirate punks and artists that needs donations of used socks, broken umbrellas, winter clothing, jackets, etc. You can volunteer as little as an hour a year for the Bay Area homeless and still be making a dent in the world. "
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