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My best friend, Kelly Kirkland (Kels), Needs A Random Act(s) of Kindness!

Aloha!
    My name is Tema and I met my best friend, Kels (Kelly Kirkland) over 10 years ago in Hawaii.  When I met her she was sick with severe chronic Asthma and COPD.  These are awful lung diseases to live with and now, she has Pulmonary Fibrosis - an incurable lung disease that scars the lung tissues and overtime you suffocate.  A horrible life to live!  Kels has a spiritual connection to the ocean and wanted to open a private boat and snorkeling business that a couple or family would never forget.  An experience of a lifetime!  I can still see her long blonde hair and her beautiful Golden Retriever dog named Harvest-Love walking on the boat dock.  Images I will always remember.  There was one thing she would do, which I had never seen before, she would open the phone book, pick a name and address and write a letter of what she called A Random Act of Kindness letter - basically a letter saying how kind and special they are and how great of a person they are.  Her Nana had taught her to write one letter a week to someone she didn't know to say how special they are to the world.  She still does this today.  We moved here to California which is Kels' hometown for better medical care.  Her health needs better medical. KELS NEEDS A RANDOM ACT OF KINDNESS BACK! Please go to www.GiveForward.com, enter Kelly Kirkland in the upper right corner where it asks Find a fundraiser; or https://gfwd.at/12v7yeI.  Read her incredible story and DONATE to help save her life.  Myself and 10 of her friends have put flyers together with donation envelopes attached to it trying to raise money to help save her life.  People seem to like the flyer with the donation envelopes, so if you would like a flyer to give to people so they'll donate and spread the random act of kindness, please send me an email:  HelpKelsFightPulmonaryFibrosis@gmail.com and I'll be glad to send them to you.  Or if you want to write or send donations directly to Kelly Kirkland, mail them to:

Fight Pulmonary Fibrosis
c/o Tema Price 
6965 El Camino Real
Suite 105 - 472
Carlsbad,  CA 92009

* Make checks or money orders out to Kelly Kirkland *

Thank you for reading this and hopefully you'll be a part of saving her life!

Tema

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