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strangely enough, .za carries a lot of american talk shows. i run into oprah and jerry springer every so often.

I really would like to here from oprah winfery. I wanted to write her a letter of thanks so if you can give me the website that is required for this. That would be gladly appreciated.

Thanks.

from Lucrecia Griffith

DEAR OPRAH WINFERY I NEED TO SPEAK BRIEFLY WITH YOU ON A BUSINESS, MATTER I AM A YOUNG AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN WITH AMBITION .BUT I MADE SOME BAD CHOICES IN LIFE IAM 37 YEAR OLD AND MY TIME MAY BE RUNNING A LITTLE SHORT.AND I WOULDN,T BE WRITING THIS LETTER BUT I DON,T KNOW WHERE TO TURN FOR HELP .AND I DON,T KNOW HOW TO GIVE UP.SEE IAM JUST A TRUCK DRIVER AND I HAVE ONE DAUGTER A GIRL FRIEND WITH 4 KID,MOTHER AND 5 SISTER I PURCHASE A BIG TRUCK ON MY BIRTHDAY AND IAM HAVING A PROBLEM WITH TRUCKING COMPANYS THAT I LEASE ON WITH, BECAUSE MOST OF THEM (TRUCKING COMPANY)FIND WAYS TO STEAL MY INCOME.WELL IAM ABOUT TO LOOSE MY TRUCK BECAUSE OF THIS REASON.SEE NOBODY WILL DO A SHOW ABOUT HOW BAD THE TRUCKING INDUSTRY IS TODAY .I ASKING FOR HELP JUST A LOAN BIG ENOUGH TO OPERATE UNDER MY OWN AUTHORITY THIS IS MY LAST RESULT I HOPE YOU DONT MAIN.

Dear oprah...
how are you.
Myn name "s numa and i am a 17 years old.
i need to tell you something.
I studind in Zwolle,Holland.
i am in love with a techer but now i know that he have a wafe.
i don"t know what to say.
"cuase i am in long time in love with him.
and i wanna ferget him but i can"t.
becuase i see him every day.
plaese help my.
what can i do.
thank you that i can tell you this all.

Dear Oprah Winfery
My name is Irene .I'm mother and grandmother.My son had 5 children, two set twins was born the some day and month but a different year. This is great story for your program, this is a story about young family but very happy and blessing family. Please give me a call if you interested. My phone # (909) 343-4019.
Thank you
Irene Tomaszewski

Dear Oprah Winfery
My name is Irene .I'm mother and grandmother.My son had 5 children, two set twins was born the some day and month but a different year. This is great story for your program, this is a story about young family but very happy and blessing family. Please give me a call if you interested. My phone # (909) 343-4019.
Thank you
Irene Tomaszewski

Dear Oprah,
I have a friend named Alberta Welch.
She is trying to raise her 2 grandsons...thier mother has diabetes and leukemia.
Is in need of some good transportation...she is also trying to get her GED!
The boys are active in basketball and baseball and football...and dont have the things they need.
Can you help her..maybe do a story on your show for her.
Alberta has just moved out of public housing after 29 yrs..and is very afraid she will have to go back.
Her husband is in jail,she has nobody.
The boys are in need of gloves,some nintendo or play station and games..clothing and shoes.
Please can you help?
Dorothy Ramsinghani
# 804-452-3524

Hi Oprah, My name is Sharleen Wilson I am from Eastpoint Florida and I am writting to you because last week I seen a show about extreme make overs. My husband of 1 1/2 years is in need of some help he has a weight problem that seems no matter how hard he tries nothing works he is close to 400lbs. most scales will not even weigh him. Everyday no matter where we go and or what we do somebody has got to make fun of him, and it hurts me, I can only imagine how he feels. I love him just the way he is and he make everyday of my life perfect, but I know that he is very unhappy cause of his weight. He can not go out with out getting so tired. People tell him that they want to take him fishing and other stuff but never do (I guess they thank he is going to sink the boat) any way I seen those people got there tummy's tucked when they really didn't have that much of a weight problem. So I was wondering if you would please help him some how. He is a wonderful person who works hard and cares for so many people. I would love to be able to fill his dream of lossing weight. Please help me I would even pay for surgrey but there is no way I can come up with that kind of money all at once. Please oprah if there is anyway possible please help him.
God Bless You for all the wonderful things you have done for so many people. Thank you so much Sharleen Wilson

Dear Oprah,

My name is Sandra Chukwu, I am from Nigeria, but school in England UK. I should be happy as I just turned 19 on the 12th of July, but instead I feel sad. The problem with me, is that I am a 19 year old, who looks more like a 30 something year old. I would not mind looking 30 something if I was actually in my 30's but I am not. I am only 19 and I look older than my sister who is my senior and like my mother's twin sister(she is kind of big herself, but she has more of an excuse than I have, she is married, has a family of her own and 5 lovely children). Through my younger years I was always on the thinner side until I turned 11 when I started wearing a UK size 12-14 which is big for a girl of that age. Everyone kept telling me "it's puppy fat do not worry you will loses it". But I never did. Now I am a UK size 20 at the age of 19 and I feel like I am getting even bigger by the second and I can not help myself. I weigh 100kg and ever kg is pulling me down physically, and pushing me away from the dreams I have. My family are supportive in their own way. The thing is, I have tried going on diets, staving myself etc but nothing works. My family keep saying I am lazy, but I am not, they just don't give me the right support even though the support me. There is support like "you can do it if you want" but then there are things that they say that is very negative and they think that by saying it, they are saying what I need to hear and will push me to shed some weight. My father is thin so are my older brothers and sister but my younger brother is just 8 years and he is getting bigger and I am getting really concerned for him. My mother is also big. This is really breaking my family and I personally can not cope any more. They can see what this is doing to me and so am I. It is turning me into something I do not want to be. I do not blame anyone but myself but I need help. Help in a very big way, because as I see it I have two choices loses weight dont know how yet, but loses weight. Gain more confident in myself and wear clothes my agemates wear and just generally feel good about myself and may me reach my dream of owning my on business like my dad one day. Or just stay as I am and may be even get worse, and loses any hope of getting my dream or trying to reach it. I am not saying big people can not reach their dreams, I am just saying that personally, I will not get my because my weight is the only thing that pulls me back whenever I try to do anything that will pull me forward in the future. This is something sometimes I do not think my family understand. Even so I love them because they still try. I go jogging with my brother in the evenings. I try to cut down the amount of food I eat, and eat the right things and most important have a balance diet. The jogging helps because when I breath now I feel better than I use to, I sleep better but I still do not feel good because I cheat in a way. I still eat junk and when I am not surpose to. My weight just hit me now, because I am getting older and I know I want to get married one day, but I want to feel good about myself before I get into any kind of relationship. Most importantly I want my family to feel better about me. I really believe my weight is the thing holding me back so please I beg you if there is any way you can help please do help me because I do not want to be the only one left out from the lsland of opportunity. Thank you so much.

Dear Oprah,
I'am writing you for a christmas wish my sister and dear friend Zvette has four children and is a loving and devoted mother. One of her four children Micheal was stricken with a disease that attacked his brain and left him lathargic ventalated patient who was wheelchair bound. For nine years of his life he suffered with this disease everyone told Zvette that it would be hard for to care for her son at home she refused to separte her children. Toni as we call her has struggled through the years to raise her children even work numerous jobs to take care of her children but because of the shortage of nurses in the ventilation field it was next to impossible this forced her to come home permanently. Just this past summer Micheal died. He lived nine years longer then he was suppose to. Zvette is going through a lot this year and Im writing in hopes that you could help this family this year for so that they could have a wonderful Xmas.
Sincerely Catherine D. Burch
Philadelphia, Pa. 215-9917825
Zvette Brown 215-324-1027

Dear Oprah,

I need help! I am 20 years old and I started a new job and I am going to start school me and my parents bought a car and it was used we bought it at a dealership I have only had the car for 6 months and it needs 1,000 in repairs but I do not drive the car alot and the car is a honda certified car anyways we can not afford to pay for the repairs of the car and I was wondering if you can help us I will give you all of my favorite brian Mcknight CD's if you can help us fix the car please.....I don't know if this will get to you but at least I tried.

p.s.

I hope you can help me.

Dear Oprah,
My mom wanted to always meet you.She admired you
because you are a genuine person.She wanted me to write to you letting you know this but then she past away 4 years ago dying from cancer.I would like to full fill her dream if I could meet you.
please let me know ,my adress is 84 Grand Dr. Taneytown,Md 21787.Thank you for your time. Cheryl

to the people reading this on behalf of OPRAH, the reason i am writing is because my sister wrote a note to OPRAH speaking about her friend and her friends sister. the sister has cancer and tried to fight it herself so she wouldn't have to worry her family.then when her sister found out she gave up her whole life to come and care for her when it got to hard to fight. the doctors only gave her months to live,and she is still alive today. the sister that has cancer tries to write to OPRAH all the time to try to get her friends on the Christmas Show.she loves OPRAH and never misses a show.the note that MY sister wrote to OPRAH was never sent because on 12-03-03 she was killed in a tragic accident in Washington State,while driving an 18 wheel semi truck.she was 34.this letter i speak of was found in her truck so the reason i want so bad for OPRAH to read it is because that is what my sister wanted to do before she was killed.the letter is so touching. and all my sister wanted was for OPRAH to read it and know her friend and her sister.please could you ask OPRAH if she could read it.no need for anyone to be on a show because all my sister wanted is, for her to read it. thank-you for your time, and please could you contact me at kimbofay@hotmail so i could send you a copy of this letter. kim

Dear Oprah, I am a mothier of 4 and married to a man who was addopted at birth and it has been hard for us all my husband has had anumber of nevers brack downs he had a bad childhood he was adopeted at birth app. 3 day after he has spent 7 years in presion he said the judge told him he should find his real mom and that her man was patty mathis hostetler he was born in january 6th 1964 he is in deep need of clossier are whole family suffers from this he is so muddey he cant in joy the little thing for the fact he owes is trying to prove to every one that he is wearth something . I left awhile ago he said i was like his mom and abanded him but it was the fact that she gave him away and what it has done to him that forest me to leave he has became angrey and mean to me and i see the resent ment when i do things for the kids . he has become jellias of the fact that i leave for my kid . and thier meeds i fill that god blessed me with 4kids two from a preaveas relationship a step son that i have custed of and one togeather . my daughteris 14 she is kind and a little spoiled my oldest son is 13 and has tereat like sendrem ,petatmal sesiors,an conpolsive disorders, this is alot for my husband to deal with as well as us all my othier son is a step cild but only on pappier because in my hart he is my son i hav none him sence he was 3 mo. old and i'v help rase him sence he was 1 year 3 mo. and he has lived with me for the last5almost 6 years he is 11 years old and adaughter who is 7 almost 8 he cant understand how a woman whocould give up a child that she carried for 9 mo. and if she had to why didnt she check on him and se he was not ok .if he could know the answers to some thing we might make are family work and he might be happy for once in his live i dont think he will sirvive in a sane way if he does not and i will have to leave agian this time for good .and i will take my stepson with me to because he love me and i love him and his mothier is not a good mom to him and my husband is not caple to take care of him .please help a scared, unhappy family

Dear Oprah, I am a mothier of 4 and married to a man who was addopted at birth and it has been hard for us all my husband has had anumber of nevers brack downs he had a bad childhood he was adopeted at birth app. 3 day after he has spent 7 years in presion he said the judge told him he should find his real mom and that her man was patty mathis hostetler he was born in january 6th 1964 he is in deep need of clossier are whole family suffers from this he is so muddey he cant in joy the little thing for the fact he owes is trying to prove to every one that he is wearth something . I left awhile ago he said i was like his mom and abanded him but it was the fact that she gave him away and what it has done to him that forest me to leave he has became angrey and mean to me and i see the resent ment when i do things for the kids . he has become jellias of the fact that i leave for my kid . and thier meeds i fill that god blessed me with 4kids two from a preaveas relationship a step son that i have custed of and one togeather . my daughteris 14 she is kind and a little spoiled my oldest son is 13 and has tereat like sendrem ,petatmal sesiors,an conpolsive disorders, this is alot for my husband to deal with as well as us all my othier son is a step cild but only on pappier because in my hart he is my son i hav none him sence he was 3 mo. old and i'v help rase him sence he was 1 year 3 mo. and he has lived with me for the last5almost 6 years he is 11 years old and adaughter who is 7 almost 8 he cant understand how a woman whocould give up a child that she carried for 9 mo. and if she had to why didnt she check on him and se he was not ok .if he could know the answers to some thing we might make are family work and he might be happy for once in his live i dont think he will sirvive in a sane way if he does not and i will have to leave agian this time for good .and i will take my stepson with me to because he love me and i love him and his mothier is not a good mom to him and my husband is not caple to take care of him .please help a scared, unhappy family

Dear Oprah: I am contacting you in regard to being one of many people who have had our rights as of being left handed taken away this has caused me geat harm in my education if you are interested in my story please contact me at 909- 766-2776 hemet calif; thank you for your time.

Jason Marshall Stephenson

hi oprah,
Icant belive that Iam sending you this Email..I hope you get the chance and the time to read it ..originaly Iam from egypt and sudan my mother was egyption and my dad from sudan...I got married to a pakistani guy and we have 4 kids 3 boys and after 21 years god gave me a beautiful girl her name is zara 3 month old ..I live now in oklahoma city..since I came to amrica 18 years ago.and my dream in to have my own restrant I love to cook but always the money was the proplem..evey day I watch your show I dream of becom your cook ..I wanted so bad to let you try my food ..so you can tel your frinds or any one in the food bussines about me I need to help my famaily my kids need abetter live in usa my little baby need a good life and my husband by him self cant do it ..please help me to help my famaily ..I do not want money ..I want to work to make that maney from them ..and you r my only hope for a better life for my 4 kids I pray to god every day to give my the health and enargy to fine a jop so I can take care of my famaily I know you did help lots of famaily to stand on there feet and they r very thankful to u and to god I hope I can get this chance to do something for my kids .......thank u very much any way for your time ......from oklahoma nahla ahsan

I write this from South Africa.I am a lady of 33, a single mom of 2 girl 16yrs and boy 15yrs. I hope you have a chance to read this letter and help me if you can.I grew up with my uncle and aunt thinking they are my biological parents. when I was 18 I found out that my parents were not my real parents and my mother got married when I was a baby and had not mentioned my presence to the husband.I got pregnant when I was 16 got a baby girl in 1987. left home and look for a job so I can feed my baby. I met someone who tricked me into sleeping with him and I was so unlucky and got pregnant again and got a baby boy in 1987. I had not had my matric by then,so I decided to go and finish my matric so I can be able to look after my kids and give them a good life.I went to school in one of the rural areas after 7 years out of school to finish my matric. I was told that I will never make it unless I start from grade 11 but I insisted to do my matric that year, I worked so hard having to catch up from all these years and do grade 11 work simultaneously. I passed my matrick with exemption allowing me to go to any university. I started to look for a better job but found out that I had to study more in order to get one. in 1997 I applied to the University of Fort Hare to do B CUR (nursing degree)and I was accepted. In december 1997 I was diagnosed with Karposis sarcoma and had to have chemotherapy the following year. I passed my first year 1997 and failed my 2nd year 1998 due to the illness.I eventually passed my degree in 2001(took me 5 years instead of 4)My parents passed away in 1993&1998 respectively.I had to go and live with my biological mother with 4 siblings,and took my 2 kids with me.It was not a good arrangement but had to, so my kids can have some place to stay when I'm studying.when I passed my degree I got a job with the university.After 11 months since I was employed my biological mother passed away.I was the only one who was working in the family so eveything was up to me to make funeral arrangements my insurance policy was only 5 months old so it did not pay. I had to borrow money from different peolple and even loan sharks which were charging 30% interest every month.This really changed my life to bitter.I could not pay rent in time nor pay my furniture instalments since then. Now I am a liar and worse of all I have debts all over and my landlord is evicting me from the flat as on wednesday the 7th and my kids are with me. I don't know what to do or whre to go for help. my friends have desserted me because always when I'm with them I always tell them about my problems.I do not have a boyfriend cause I do not have time to love anyone else.The fathers of my kids do not pay a cent towards the maintanance of their kids. I'm afraid that the kids will not be able to go to school when they reopen after easter holidays. please help I once took tablet trying to kill myself with no success. when I look at them I feel so sorry for the as they do not have any idea of what is going on in my life because I can be able to pretent that nothing is going on and yet I'm dying inside.I am not afraid to work hard I can work day and night if it needs to be but I can't get extra job to do that and my daughter is in a stage where she really needs me.If Ican be able to clear my debts I can be a new person again.Though I am working I do not qualify fo any bank loans because of my bad financial record.My debt is R30 000.00 ALL TOGETHER
please help you are my last resort!

Dear Oprah!
I write this from South Africa.I am a lady of 33, a single mom of 2 girl 16yrs and boy 15yrs. I hope you have a chance to read this letter and help me if you can.I grew up with my uncle and aunt thinking they are my biological parents. when I was 18 I found out that my parents were not my real parents and my mother got married when I was a baby and had not mentioned my presence to the husband.I got pregnant when I was 16 got a baby girl in 1987. left home and look for a job so I can feed my baby. I met someone who tricked me into sleeping with him and I was so unlucky and got pregnant again and got a baby boy in 1987. I had not had my matric by then,so I decided to go and finish my matric so I can be able to look after my kids and give them a good life.I went to school in one of the rural areas after 7 years out of school to finish my matric. I was told that I will never make it unless I start from grade 11 but I insisted to do my matric that year, I worked so hard having to catch up from all these years and do grade 11 work simultaneously. I passed my matrick with exemption allowing me to go to any university. I started to look for a better job but found out that I had to study more in order to get one. in 1997 I applied to the University of Fort Hare to do B CUR (nursing degree)and I was accepted. In december 1997 I was diagnosed with Karposis sarcoma and had to have chemotherapy the following year. I passed my first year 1997 and failed my 2nd year 1998 due to the illness.I eventually passed my degree in 2001(took me 5 years instead of 4)My parents passed away in 1993&1998 respectively.I had to go and live with my biological mother with 4 siblings,and took my 2 kids with me.It was not a good arrangement but had to, so my kids can have some place to stay when I'm studying.when I passed my degree I got a job with the university.After 11 months since I was employed my biological mother passed away.I was the only one who was working in the family so eveything was up to me to make funeral arrangements my insurance policy was only 5 months old so it did not pay. I had to borrow money from different peolple and even loan sharks which were charging 30% interest every month.This really changed my life to bitter.I could not pay rent in time nor pay my furniture instalments since then. Now I am a liar and worse of all I have debts all over and my landlord is evicting me from the flat as on wednesday the 7th April 2004 and my kids are with me. I don't know what to do or where to go for help. my friends have desserted me because always when I'm with them I tell them about my problems.I do not have a boyfriend cause I do not have time to love anyone else.The fathers of my kids do not pay a cent towards the maintanance of their kids. I'm afraid that the kids will not be able to go to school when they reopen after easter holidays. please help I once took tablets trying to kill myself with no success. when I look at them I feel so sorry for them as they do not have any idea of what is going on in my life because I can be able to pretent that nothing is going on and yet I'm dying inside.I am not afraid to work hard I can work day and night if it needs to be but I can't get extra job to do that and my daughter is in a stage where she really needs me.If Ican be able to clear my debts I can be a new person again.Though I am working I do not qualify fo any bank loans because of my bad financial record.My debt is R30 000.00 ALL TOGETHER
please help you are my last resort!

hello oprah,my name is kristen,im writing too you becouse a friend said tell oprah.im 27 and my husband is 28 we have 5 children,we have been fom apartment too apartment becouse of realy bad finacial problems and discriminating people,i didnt know there was so many rude people in this world,but now i doo.anyways we are frm horseheads n.y in upstate,and my oldest son is mallotto and my others are white,my oldest is 11 and has a desiease call elephant man disease i cant spell the name of it i will try though(neurofibromitosis),anyways he was diagnosed at the age of 5 and further testing is being done he shows no signs yet except he has horrible migrains,my 6 year old son is a little slow and when i was pregnate with him he had 5 sists on his brain and swallon kidneys we then attended church too find the lord and we did he was born totaly normal,so they say,but now he is left with being slow.i had the best mother inlaw in the world she bought us 3 cars and a washer a microwave and anything we needed even though she was broke she used all her inharritance she got when her hubby passed,and was always calling too make sure our bills were payed,her and my hubby were so very close and i mean very close we were devistated too find out last year that she had colon cancer and then whent through radiation and was cured, just 2 weeks after her radion was done she whent back too the dr.s and then later that week we found that she had 3-6 months too live she was the only one we had she watched the kids she loved our only daughter so much and just wanted too see her get married,but unfortunatly we lost her too the only one we have left our lord jesus christ,he helps us pull through all the nights me and my husband sit and cry and pray and he helps us decide which bill too pay for the month we pick one bill each month,i cant afford too work yet daycare is realy high,and i have chronich fitigue disease and my deppression is so bad that im on affexor and welbutrin and have been seeing a sykiatrist and a therapist for almost 2 years now,my husband has been working at sams club for 8 and a halph years and gets payed by weekly about 400.00$and our rent is 500.00 and our rent is actualy very cheap for this area,and we live in a halph of a house with 3 bedrooms it took so long too find an apartment with that many rooms,becouse noone would rent too us becouse we have so many kids,i even had people tell me im stupid and swear at me and make me feel like dirt,but im getting used too it.mu husband is a wounderful father and a great person we have been together for 9 years and married for 5.my oldest son is a.d.h.d and he has alot of other issues with deppression and more.my youngest son is everywhere in the house frm plunging the toilet too smashing eggs in the kitchen and we cant let the kids play outside becouse we live near a buisy street and i cant watch them all at once my husband works alot and i basicaly doo everything myself,my body is very tired and im so stressed out,i put our name on the habbitat for humanity list 4 years ago and never got a call i cant live in this little apartment much longer ,we cant send our kids too school on the bus anymore becouse the driver has too go out of her way too pick the kids up and she never stops she drives right by and also my kids have now attended this new school for 1 and a halph months now and the bus driver had my colored son sitting up front since the 3rd day and all other kids pick there seats.she lies and says she stops and has started all kinds of problems my kids have missed school and been tardy becouse of her and she is a horrible person,i have called the bus garage so many times they do nothing i call the super intendant so many times and even the principle and they all take her side they will not believe us what so ever its all us we are the ones who look bad they think we are horrible parents she is a horrible person i dont know what too do i havnt done anything too and i have never met her either,the school treats us like scum and so doo so many people in this town we are clean and love our kids so much and want only the best for them ,what can we do there making us out too be bad people nomatter what i say or do i havnt lied and i teach my kids manners and they go too church every sunday and even the pastore has given us 900.00 dollars this last year becouse our rusted mini van broke down 6 times,oprah i think im going too go crazy ,what do i do,why does everyone juge us and treat us so badly help oprah help .thank you for your time i could write all day,love (kids)tyler age 11,alissa age 9,matthew age 8,christopher age 5,and last but not least alexander age 3.thank you oprah again,jim and kristen frm upstate n.y

Hello Ms. Winfrey, I am Eric Wray a 24 yr old future business owner. I am writing you as a result of a friend of mine's advice. I have always been an advocate of helping others and being a voice in my community. Well at this time I am endeavoring in the biggest project of my life. I am endeavoring in beginning the Countrys First Non-Profit Funeral Establishment. I am a student of Mortuary Science in Richmond, Va. I have been in the busniess since the age of 13. From that time I have gone through various setbacks, as this business is primarily a family business. It is near impossible to get a foot hold into the business, if you are not a family member. In the state of Virginia you must complete a 18 month apprenticship. It is your responsibility to find your own Funeral Home, and with the business being so closed Licensure is next to impossible. My desire is to create professionals, and to provide Funeral Services for persons AT COST! I am in the process of my 501-c3 obligations. My desire is to totally change this sacred profession, from being about the owners wallet and returning to a service. We will assist various persons who have no money to be buried as well as give scholarships to worthy students, even if they are not affilliated with our establishment. We need your help to assist us in bringing this project into reality. The YMCA, Red Cross, 700 club etc. are all Non- Profits and we will be also. Thank You I hope this message gets to you personally. You can contact me via e-mail or at (757) 235-0441 or (757) 467-2282. I really hope that you can assist me in this endeavor as I am really ready to begin this work. Thank You Very Much,

Eric V. Wray II

Hello Ms. Winfery,

I am Eric Wray a 24 years of age future successful black business owner. I do realize that you recieve many e-mail's and letters from people on a daily basis. However, I believe that this e-mail is a very special one because of it's very original. I am a student of Mortuary Science at Norfolk State University and a Navy Veteran. I have been in the Funeral Business since the age of 13. Oprah, it is hard to get into the business and I have faced alot of "Black Balling" because of my hard work ethic and drive. Many others have never worked at an establishment because the business is so closed. It is a family oriented business and is closed to outsiders for fear of you training an individual and they becoming competition. In addition to that, Funeral Homes over-charge families and have no heart for those in need. Well Oprah, I am here to change all of that. Currently I am working to get my 501-C3 to bring the Country's 1st Non-Profit Funeral Home. I am interested in the helping of others, providing apprenticships for worthy students ?(because it is a state requirement and is the students responsibility). Also we will start the Seymore/Myrtis Wray Foundation to give scholarships to deserving Mortuary School students all over the country. We also will create secure, professional jobs with health, dental, and 401K benefits. We will also assist those individuals who are less fortunate, and cannot afford to bury their loved ones. Tom in need your financial assistance to bring this project to reality. I really believe in this project and this is a 1st for the country and will LEGITIMATLY change the face of this sacred business. My information is as follows.

Eric V. Wray II
Virginia Beach, VA
'(757) 235-0441
(757)467-2282

We really hope and pray that you can assist in anyway as this will be a tax write off.

Thank You and God Bless,

Eric V. Wray II

Hi Oprah, my name is Tulana i'am a 29 year old mom of two kids.I'am currently in college and working as a janitor for a large company. My mom is very sick and my son is autistic.My daughter is fine.I need your advice on how to buget my money after spending so much to try to hold down a house without help.Latley i have been feeling bad because,after paying bills there is barley enough to buy clothes and food for my family. their has been times where i just wanted to kill myself,because i just could'nt makeends meet.

Hi Oprah, my name is Tulana i'am a 29 year old mom of two kids.I'am currently in college and working as a janitor for a large company. My mom is very sick and my son is autistic.My daughter is fine.I need your advice on how to buget my money after spending so much to try to hold down a house without help.Latley i have been feeling bad because,after paying bills there is barley enough to buy clothes and food for my family.Call me.i will tell you more. 662-374-1866

I KNOW THAT YOU MAY NEVER READ MY COMENT. BUT MY ONLY WISH IN MY LIFE IS TO BE ABLE TO WEAR A SWIM SUIT AGAIN. YOU HAVE HELP SO MANY PEOPLE . SO WILL YOU FIND IT IN YOUR HEART TO HELP ME. I AM A MOTHER OF 3. I WORK VERY HARD I HAVE JUST COMPLETED MY 2 YEAR DEGREE. I JUST NEED A BREAK I FEEL SO BURNT OUT. I HAVE VIRCUS VAINS. I AM SO CONCIOUS OF MY SELF SO I DONT WEAR SHORTS ANYMORE PLEASE HELP ME I DONT ASK FOR MUCH

I KNOW THAT YOU MAY NEVER READ MY COMENT. BUT MY ONLY WISH IN MY LIFE IS TO BE ABLE TO WEAR A SWIM SUIT AGAIN. YOU HAVE HELP SO MANY PEOPLE . SO WILL YOU FIND IT IN YOUR HEART TO HELP ME. I AM A MOTHER OF 3. I WORK VERY HARD I HAVE JUST COMPLETED MY 2 YEAR DEGREE. I JUST NEED A BREAK I FEEL SO BURNT OUT. I HAVE VIRCUS VAINS. I AM SO CONCIOUS OF MY SELF SO I DONT WEAR SHORTS ANYMORE PLEASE HELP ME I DONT ASK FOR MUCH

Dear Oprah,
Hi,my name is Stacey I'm a 19 year old girl trying so hard to find a job,go to college and find my own place so I could live a normal life
like mostly everybody else. I come from a family not so wealthy and try so hard to maintain a job when I do find one to be able to support my family. Especially my little brother, I'm like a mother and father for him. My mother goes to work and father just isn't there for us anymore. I buy my brother his clothes when I do get money and I always make sure I cook and have food ready when he comes home from school. I always get sad when my little brother looks at me when he comes home from school crying because kids make fun of him because he doesn't have the best name-brand clothes like most kids or because he always wear the same sneakers for seven to eight months. I always tell him not to worry because God will bless us one day and everytime I tell him that
he feels better and that's a relief for me.

PLEASE HELP!

dear oprah,

like so many other americans, you really shit me up the wall. and whats with dr phil - you surely must be shagging him cause no one in their right mind would give that idiot a show of his own.

Dear oprah
I'm a 23 year old quaddraplegic who is on section 8. I just recieved my certificate after waiting 2 years, from HUD Jan. 2004. I have 2 small children the ages 1 and 2 years of age.I't took a long time for me to find a unit that is equiped to my dissability but by keeping faith and prayer i was blessed and got in a place that was accessible for my children and I. A whole new world for my family and I. A world of independence for myself that I thought I would never seek because of a car accedent 9 years ago that left me disable and dependent on others to help me. Forced on depending on the government for help because I no longer quilfy on having a good paying job to support my family and I. Now once again when getting so close to a dream doing for me and my family what I thought I never be able to do living on my own is being taken away after only 6 months.Fighting for funding to have the city of Elgin build me ramps on a duplex house in order to make it handicapp accessable for me to get in and out myself just in case of a fire or something. Where do I suppose to go, where do my children suppose to go or do when I tell my landlord as of July 31st that section 8 is no longer helping my family and is not paying the bills. Who to tell when you have no one and the only help you thought you had kick you in the face and backed out on you. The same people you trust and confined in is turning their backs on you. Where do I go, who do i trust, who can we depend on when there's no one or no where to go? Please answer because the only alternative is living on the streets with my 2 children because I am one with no one or nothing when this is gone.
thank you for listening
lemika early
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Hi Oprah, i was just watching your dreams come true show and thought that i would write. You truely bring happiness and hope for a better tommorow to thousands of people. Im a 31 year old women with two childern,Kanesha & Mohona ages 16 & 13. I grew up in a herion addicted household and was preganant at the age of 15. My mother passed soon after and i never knew my father, so i had to fend for myself for many years. This was not done gracefully. I too ended up in the drug world doing the same things to my kids as my mother had done to me and my brother. I have been incarserated and have made several bad choices. Today things are different, i havent used in over four years and my childern are home, i have enrolled in the University of Oregon beginning fall term ( im very proud) and life is better than it has been. My dream is to be of service to others who have walked in my shoes, i believe i have alot to offer, im also scared because i dont want to fail not only myself but most importantly my children, they have been through so much, i am having to compromise between my passion and being a single mom, having to work long hours to pay bills and trying to study in between being the best mom i can be. Do i struggle trying to pay for school and home to bring a better tommrrow for myself and others, including my children? Or give it up? Im scared that if i give up on me that i wont be good for my children!!! My dream is to be able to afford going to school while spending quality time with my kids? Please give me advice. Thank you

hi Oprah,i would like to say i love your show i would like to come to your show maybe one day.My family laughs at me when i say one day i will be on your show,I just recevied a computer from my uncle and i said the first thing i would do is find your web site it took all day but i did.I am a stay at home mom for now until i can find a job that fits with the schudle of the kids.I am 27 years old,i just recently got married on March 20,2004,Oprah don`t you know the night of our wedding we had to take our kids home with us no one even voluntered to take them my father even rented a room at the Howard Johnson but we took our kids and our gifts and went home,by the way i have 2 kids a girl and boy there not even bad,but it was ok,my point to this is the next time you have a honeymoon giveaway please, please consider us.The reason we didn`t take one was because we could`nt afford it and no babysitter.If you give me a chance to talk to you i can better explain.I have so much i can say i can write a book please,please oprah call me are e-mail at nateshawilliams@bellsouth.net or my number is (985)537-4639 my address is 542 Market st. Raceland,La 70394. Thank you so much for listening. yours truley,

hi Oprah,i would like to say i love your show i would like to come to your show maybe one day.My family laughs at me when i say one day i will be on your show,I just recevied a computer from my uncle and i said the first thing i would do is find your web site it took all day but i did.I am a stay at home mom for now until i can find a job that fits with the schudle of the kids.I am 27 years old,i just recently got married on March 20,2004,Oprah don`t you know the night of our wedding we had to take our kids home with us no one even voluntered to take them my father even rented a room at the Howard Johnson but we took our kids and our gifts and went home,by the way i have 2 kids a girl and boy there not even bad,but it was ok,my point to this is the next time you have a honeymoon giveaway please, please consider us.The reason we didn`t take one was because we could`nt afford it and no babysitter.If you give me a chance to talk to you i can better explain.I have so much i can say i can write a book please,please oprah call me are e-mail at nateshawilliams@bellsouth.net or my number is (985)537-4639 my address is 542 Market st. Raceland,La 70394. Thank you so much for listening. yours truley,

hELLO OPRAH, MY NAME IS VERENDA PRICE, i'M INSPIRED OF THE LEADERHIP AND HOW YOU EMPOWERS OTHERS,LIFE FINANCIALLY & SPIRITUALY ESPECIALLY YOUNG TALENTED WOMAN LIKE MYSELF. I'M FROM NIAGARA FALLS N.Y JUST RECENTLY MOVED TO STONE MOUNTAIN GA,14 MOS AGO AND I HAVE A 7YR OLD DAUGHTER. I'M ALSO A SINGLE PARENT AND LOVE TO HELP OTHER PEOPLE BECOME FINANCIALY INDEPENDENT.I HAVE MY OWN HOME BASED BUSINESS WHICH I'VE GOT STARTED 7MOS AGO. THE COMPANY IS PREPAIDLEGAL SERVICES INC. BEEN IN BUSINESS OVER 30YRS AND IS LISYED ON THE NYSE. WE PROVIDE AFFORDABLE LEGAL INSURANCE FOR MIDDLE INCOME FAMILIES AND PROVIDES A NETWORK OF AV&BV RATED FIRMS THRUOUT THE US& CANADA ALSO WE PARTNERED WITH ANOTHER AMAZING COMPANY OUT OF NY AND LISTED ON THE NYSE CALLED KROLL WORLDWIDE IT'S A RISK MANAGEMENT CO. HAVE YOU HEARD OF "IDENITY THEFT" IT'S A SERIOUS CRIME. ALOT OF PEOPLE(MILLIONS HAVE FALL VICTIM OF THIS SERIOUS CRIME) WE PROTECT PEOPLE AND MONITOR THERE FILES DAILY, GIVE THEM A CURRENT CREDIT REPORT AND JUST IN CASE THEY HAVE FELL VICTIM WE WILL RESTORE THEIR IDENITY AND GIVE THEM UP TO 25K INSURANCE NO DEDUCTIBLE FOR ANY OUT OF POCKET EXPENSES. i'M ONLY 25YRS OLD AND IS LOOKING FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO WANTS TO MAKE MONEY PROVIDING A SERVICE TO BUSINESS OWNERS, EMPLOYESS,&FAMILIES. I MYSELF IS BUILDING NETWORK ACROSS THE US&CANADA BUT NEED A LITTLE FINANCIAL HELP. i NEED HELP WITH TOOLS, SUCH AS DVDS,TAPES,COMPUTER,FAX,AND A CAR TO MAKE IT MORE SUITABLE FOR MY BUSINESS NEEDS. EVERYTHING WE DO IS A PROCESS AND I KNOW I'M GONNA MAKE IT NO MATTER WHAT I HAVE TO GO THRU IN LIFE TO MAKE IT. ONE DAY I WOULD LIKE TO BE ON YOUR SHOW AND DISCUSS THE OPPORTUNITY TO EVERYONE DOING THIS BUSINESS (PARTIME FROM HOME). I LIKE TO MAKE A LIVING WHILE MAKING A DIFFERENCE. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE SUPPORT AND GOD BLESS. VERENDA PRICE HOME OFFICE NUMBER IS 770-879-9421 TOLL FREE BUS&MEBER OVERVIEW 1-866-668-1646 LEAVE ME A MESSAGE ON MY VMAIL AND TELL ME WHAT U LIKE MOST ABOUT WHAT YOU HEARD ALSO WE ARE NATIONALLY KNOWN THROUGH THE BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE THANKS TO HARRY C ALFORD CEO OF THE NATIONAL CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND OUR LEADER DARNELL SELF WHO RECIEVED THE ENTREPUNEUR AWARD FOR 2004 AT THE NEW ORLEANS TNV CONVENTION......

Dear Oprah I am a 36 year old woman stuck and I really do not know how to get out of it for the past year and a half it is on going drama when is it my turn to have peace I lost everything I have ever worked for and cannot find work My doctor tells me that know I am bipolar is it really bipolar or do you keep taking the puches how do you live with decision of someone that just listens what you tell them how do you get back to being normal after you have gone through so much in your life so young I was 13 years old when all this started in my life I had a baby that is now 22 ,I also have a 19 year old and least a 16 year old son 2 grandchildren and have the slighest clue how to get a stable life no matter what I do nothing breaks for me if you have bad credit you cannot get a job if you have a criminal history your looked at as being a bad person I paid my debt to society 19 years ago and was told I got a clemcy I cannot get a place to live bacause I do not have ajob living in motels on the street ,living out of my car at one time now I am with out a car aswell .My son is in prison my other is on probation ,and my youngest is just about to fininsh his probation ,I cannot get any rest how am I suppoed to et my life together to keep my son a strong young man to succesfull for his own life please help me I am in so much debt and really do not know what to do I lost my licnse to be be independent but I cannot pay it I have been from house to house trying to get a stable job ,but everytime I try something happens when is it all going to stop I need your help despe.ratly

dear oprah i love kids. i have adopted in the past.i raise 7 kids. i wish i could have a house build on my land.big enough to adopt more children. if you could loan me some money to pay my bills. i would pay you back. i'm 59 years old and i have work all my life. i'm working now. sometimes its hard to make ends meet.but god give me the strenght to keep going. if you don't loan me the money its okay. i'm a foster parent now. and i love it i like to help the special need kids.i don't have much but i can give them love.
i hope to hear from you soon i love your show when i can watch it.i work so late. thank you for hearing me out. god bless

Dear Oprah, Winfery I have a very intellgent son that is 14yrs old he is so smart and 6yr old little girl I work for clinic that has cut my pay to 32hours per. week I missed your show were you give away new car I really need one I live w/ my 84 yrs old dad and my 80 yr old mom in small three bedroom house in oklahoma city my mom has diabete and Bp I would like to have some help or new job I pls write back

Dear Oprah, Winfery I have a very intellgent son that is 14yrs old he is so smart and 6yr old little girl I work for clinic that has cut my pay to 32hours per. week I missed your show were you give away new car I really need one I live w/ my 84 yrs old dad and my 80 yr old mom in small three bedroom house in oklahoma city my mom has diabete and Bp I would like to have some help or new job I pls write back

Dear Oprah, Winfery I have a very intellgent son that is 14yrs old he is so smart and 6yr old little girl I work for clinic that has cut my pay to 32hours per. week I missed your show were you give away new car I really need one I live w/ my 84 yrs old dad and my 80 yr old mom in small three bedroom house in oklahoma city my mom has diabete and Bp I would like to have some help or new job I pls write back

Dear Oprah,
My name is Jenna i'm thireteen just last week my language teacher Mrs.Varges gave our class a assingment to write a paper on what a hero means to me and who I wrote a hero is someone who can chance someones life someone who inspiers people to do the right thing someone who can change a mistake in somones life. I am proud and honored to say that my hero is you. It may not seem alot if a thireteen tells you that but i'm sure if you took a second and realize how many people you help and inspire you will see that you are a real great hero.

Hi Oprah,
I know that you are a blessed woman and I Love your Shows, But most of all I love how you have over came the serious hurts and situation that has risen in your life. Your issue on how to overcome is excellent. And I thank you: in January of 1977 I Lost 2 sisters, 1 Brother, 1 niece and 1 Brother In-law. It marked me for life But somehow I still thank God because I could have died also, I was sleep too, I still have 2 sisters and 2 Brothers Our mom pass away in 99 just a few days before I won Election for School Board in a south suburb.
Oprah I wish that I could make my Siblings Thanksgiving & Christmas one they will never forget. We try to stay close and have a lot of family things But the Home House just ain't what it use to be. My elderest sister don't have the money to do all the repairs thats needed. My income is only $507.00 a month that barely enough to keep my family going and my 20 year old is due October 24, 2004 but, doesn't look like she's going to make it to that date.
Please help us for christmas it is very important for the family to be together it my other sister's Birthday. (708)388-0074

Love Always,
Kandy Carrington- Young

Robbins, IL. 60472

DEAR MAMAM; I know I am nobody. But I am a mom and a recovering addict of 8 years. I receive disablity. I have a daughter that I lost custody of when she was 2. I clean houses and put every dime I made last year to go to court to see my first born and he dont show up. My other two children dont understand. But I worked so hard to be clean myself up, to get my life together, I lost one brother to sucide, I lost Monica because I attempted sucide. I was served papers in the mental hospital. I have spoke with Pam a women Monica's dad married and she said Monica would recieve my letters but I dont beleive her. Could you help me

I am a thirty-three year old widow living in a Muslim Community in Redhouse VA. Eighteen months ago I married a wonderful man who brought me to the community that I had been searching for for more than two years prior to us meeting. Our meeting was not by accident! We married 2/12/03, and he worked tirelessly for five years as a self-employed merchant selling clothes, shoes, purses, body oils, incenses and more. He made a pretty good living for himself with his store, but it became a struggle with the added responsibility of a wife and a home to maintain too, he had to let the store go and began to sell merchandise out of the car.
We began to fix up the trailer he had on the land in the community. It was unoccupied for more than five years before we moved in it, so it needed a lot of work. There was mold, broken windows, no front door, holes in the floors, etc… When we moved in the trailer was leaning to one side (not leveled). We called a professional to level it but because the land is hilly and the mobile home is old (1973), they couldn’t get the truck in to lift the trailer without it breaking or splitting. We went to the www and printed out information on how to do it ourselves. We leveled it within two months, (well he did the work digging holes, stacking bricks, jacking up the trailer…) and I stood by supporting him ( to make sure the house would not fall on him). Next we removed the curtain and replaced it with a front door. We then started working inside cleaning, painting and repairing as much as we could. My husband make a deck, cut in a water line himself and put up an electric pole and more only to find out that the county inspectors just passed a law that no new building permits will be issued on mobile homes over the age of 1979 (“in our community”). We worked endlessly trying to make the trailer comfortable for us. So our trailer did not pass inspection, and our efforts were wasted. We continued to live there with no water, no stove, no heat, no electricity, broken windows etc… My husband would fill containers & buckets of water at the water pump and carry them back to the house so we can wash and flush. We used a kerosene heater for heat and cooking. Then when the weather got warmer we got a propane camping stove to cook on. We are on borrowed electric (connected to a neighbor) to keep the refrigerator and a few lights on. My husband and I never got to have our reception after our wedding. So on August 5th (his 43rd birthday) we planned the long awaited reception for 9/11/04 (no special reason, but that was the only day available at the reception hall).
Shortly after August 5th my husband became sick and passed away 9/17/04. Of course we had to cancel the reception and we couldn’t afford to get another house. I had convinced him to allow me to get a job to help him before he has gotten sick. With all that was happening (him going in and out of the hospital) five weeks later I forgot that I applied for a job and they called me the day before he passed away.
The community has been so very helpful with making sure I have kerosene, propane, food and filling up my water containers and supplying me with electricity. Everyone from our families, community and hospital staff have been really kind, caring and helpful but I just can’t live in our trailer without my husband, and I can’t afford $16,000.00 for a new trailer, or even $8,000.00 for a used one. My credit is really bad since I filled a bankruptcy in the year 2000.
I really need your help getting my living situation in order so that I can be confident about maintaining a healthy lifestyle, getting back into the workplace, and becoming independent again. I did accept the position and I start training on Tuesday 10/5/04. I do have a home phone number 434-248-5436. He is from Chicago and his mother could not make it to the funeral services so they are having a memorial service for him on Saturday 10/2/04. His brother and sister did come from Chi-town. He took me there to meet them last year. It was sad for me to see they again under those circumstances.

Please help!!! Thanks Sister Juba Ali Ward

Dear Ms. Winfery,I am years old and it is troubled. I'm going to new school (Thomas Eaton Middle)and have the best of friends at other schools. It may not be alot for some people,but for me it's diferent. I feel alone. My fiends have don alot things for me. The least I can do is pay them back. There was alwys something we used to talk about though,and it was meeting Raven Symone. I know no one are going to listen to young Hampton,Virginia girl,but I tried. thank you for your show,Tanya Freeman.

Ok, I have no idea what the heck site this is....Went to Google to find "neurofibromitosis sarcoma" and it brought up a bunch of stuff for Oprah??
My cousin that I have grown up with had NFM and it's turned into sarcomas in the last few years. She's around 25, living about 10 yrs past than originally projected. She has an excellent orthopoedic surgeon at the U of M hospital, but others have talked her into more chemo now--her tumors are becoming massive, very destructive to her physical being. Two years Fargo docs told her she needed her leg amputated due to all the embedded tumors in her leg nerves--we opted to have them surgically removed in Minneapolis and she's walking with both legs.
Is there any treatment? Her "new" chemo and radiation are going to make her quality of life horrible in the next several months, and she's only been given "about 8 months with chemo/radiation treatment". This woman is amazing. There is absolutely no one else in my family that could have dealt with this the way she has her whole life.

HELP ME PLEASE JAY WALLACE 317 535 17 39

I just have very strong respect for a woman like Oprah,she so focused,dedicated and nice in anything she means to do.I wish to be like her.One of my earnest DREAMS is to meet her,i just will be to happy.
I wonder why she cannot do any show with us Nigerians,hope she doesnt hate us,so that she wouldnt hate me.
I am a 24year old girl.A graduate of Theatre/performing Arts.I am dark in complexion,5ft seven tall.AM a very serious minded persn dat has a lot of wishes which one of them aside reading very well and excelling is to meet OPRAH WINFERY.
I will be TOO,excited and honoured if she sees this my sincere feelings.
Thanking you in anticipation.
Nancy(Imoh Akpan)
Nigeria.

I just have very strong respect for a woman like Oprah,she so focused,dedicated and nice in anything she means to do.I wish to be like her.One of my earnest DREAMS is to meet her,i just will be to happy.
I wonder why she cannot do any show with us Nigerians,hope she doesnt hate us,so that she wouldnt hate me.
I am a 24year old girl.A graduate of Theatre/performing Arts.I am dark in complexion,5ft seven tall.AM a very serious minded persn dat has a lot of wishes which one of them aside reading very well and excelling is to meet OPRAH WINFERY.
I will be TOO,excited and honoured if she sees this my sincere feelings.
Thanking you in anticipation.
Nancy(Imoh Akpan)
Nigeria.

looking at Oprah i see the blacks especially the black women becoming what they wish to be in life.Oprah has really made us proud and many would want to be like her cos of the way she has represented us . You [Oprah] are my model and i wish to represent the blacks [no matter the country] and the women like you are doing .
I really wish to see or hear from u,i will be imensely HONOURED.
looking forward to it one day.