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<p style="text-align: justify;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial; color: red; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">“</span></strong><strong><span style="color: red; font-size: 11pt;">Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn't matter whether you're a lion or gazelle - when the sun comes up, you'd better be running.”</span></strong><strong> </strong></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">On Sunday 22nd April 2012, I will be running the Virgin London Marathon in memory of my father who I lost to Alzheimer’s 2 years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">The aim is to get around the course in 4 hours 30 minutes, but if that doesn’t happen then simply finishing and raising money for such a great charity will be a fantastic achievement.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">I am raising money for the Mental Health Foundation (MHF) which is </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">very personal to me after having seen the impact of Alzheimer’s on a loved one – my father Bill Paris. I saw how this illness took a mentally strong man to one that became 100% dependant on those around him. I also saw how this illness took its toll on the loving members of the family who saw his deterioration. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">MHF’s goal is </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">to </span><span style="font-size: 11pt;">eliminate the needless suffering that mental illness causes to individuals, their family, their friends and society as a whole<span style="color: #4b575f;">. </span>This is a cause I support 100% and </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">without the fundraising efforts and donations of people, the Mental Health Foundation would not be able to continue its research and education programs across the country raising awareness for all mental health illnesses.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Please help me reach my fundraising target by sponsoring me to run for this very worth while charity!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Thank you so much for all your support - it makes all the training and every step of the 26.2 miles worth it!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto;"><span style="color: black; font-size: 11pt; mso-ansi-language: EN;">(For more information on the Mental Health Foundation, please visit <a href="http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/"><span style="color: #800080;">www.mentalhealth.org.uk</span></a>)</span></p>