Reply #5: Okay. Now that you said that.

[Midlodemocrat]

I'll tell you the story behind it.

My brother lost his wife in 2003 to cancer 16 months after giving birth to their only child, a little girl. His wife was probably THE most compassionate person I have ever known and she did a ton of work with second harvest and the homeless and hungry in NYC.

This year, for some odd reason, I've really been missing her. Her laugh, her sweet nature and just about everything about her. I was going to donate to a charity of hers and when Skinner announced this, I couldn't resist. We've donated every year in her honor and somehow I feel her compassion and goodness continues.

In fact, at her funeral, my brother had a beautiful spread and when it was over, I heard him talking to the caterers about packing up the leftovers and taking them to wherever it was that she went to volunteer.

Anyway. That's the deal. She was the light and the hope. Not me.