RE: American Cancer Society

I received the following email from a friend. Would you check out the claim at the end of the poem that says for every person you send it to that the American Cancer Society will donate 3 cents per person to Cancer research?

Here's the email:

Subject: Slow Dance


This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl
in a New York Hospital.
It was sent by a medical doctor - Make sure to read
what is in the closing statement AFTER THE POEM.

SLOW DANCE

Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?

Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?

You better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?

When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?

You'd better slow down
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?

Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say Hi

You'd better slow down.
Don't dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.

When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift Thrown away.

Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.

PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO HELP THIS LITTLE GIRL. ALL
FORWARDED E-MAILS ARE TRACKED TO OBTAIN THE TOTAL
COUNT.

Dear All:
PLEASE pass this mail on to everybody you know. It is
the request of a special little girl who will soon
leave this world as she has cancer.
Thank you for your effort, this isn't a chain letter,
but a choice for all of us to save a little girl
that's dying of a serious and fatal form of cancer.
Please send this to everyone you know or don't know.
This little girl has 6 months left to live, and as
her dying wish, she wanted to send a letter telling
everyone to live their life to the fullest since she
never will. She'll never make it to prom, graduate
from high school or get married and have a family of
her own. By you sending this to as many people as
possible, you can give her and her family a little
hope, because with every name that this is sent to,
The American Cancer Society will donate 3 cents per
name to her treatment and recovery plan. One guy sent
this to 500 people! So I know that we can send it to
at least 5 or 6.

It's not even your money, just your time! PLEASE PASS
ON AS A LAST REQUEST

Dr. Dennis Shields, Professor
Department of Developmental and Molecular Biology
1300 Morris Park Avenue
Bronx, New York 10461