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      The story that inspired
                Hold On
                   2Your Dreams

      One day in July of 1977 in Ocean City, NJ.  I was sitting at the kitchen table with my friend Barbara in her house.  She poured each of us a glass of coke.  As we talked condensation formed on our glasses.  Barbara moved her glass a few inches to her right and looked at the condensation that had come from her glass and was now on the table.  She lowered her index finger into the condensation.  A few seconds later as she slowly moved her index finger through the condensation she said "Mark, what does this test show?"  I said "I do not know."  She said "This test shows that water molecules like each other."  I did not understand the test, but made a mental note to one day understand the lesson behind it.  The summer came to an end. It was time for Barbara and I said our Goodbyes

     One day in Chemistry class our teacher explained how molecules hold on to each other. One of the examples he used was water.

My mind lit up.  I said to myself.  "Now I understand the test Barbara was showing me on the kitchen table on that hot summer day.

   Fifteen years later as I was writing the story about the water condensation test on the kitchen table in a letter to Barbara, the periodic number H-2-O for water popped in my head.  I realized if I arrange the code a certain way, I would get 

 Hold On
   2Your Dreams
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