Avon Breast Cancer Walk

Jan 19 2008

What up peeps. So one of my dear friends from High School is doing the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer in May. She is doing the walk in my honor (which makes me a celebrity, right?!)

So if you are crazy athletic you can join the team or if you would like to you can donate to her walk efforts. Each member needs to raise $1800, so every dollar helps.

This is a great cause (duh) and makes me feel happy inside. Thanks for doing this Crystal!

Check out her page: (if you copy the whole thing including the weird letters, numbers, symbols you go directly to her page).
http://info.avonfoundation.org/site/TR/Walk2008/WashingtonDC?px=3855547&pg=personal&fr_id=1430&et=f2y1Vn84REX2nUyo8pKKiQ..&s_tafId=253813

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