I have been (and still am) waiting for the newest edition to come out. It will be my first Bear guide. I figure that I owe at least the purchase price, if not much more, for having my eyes opened to the possibilities of distance learning. Tony Thanks to everyone else here also.
Before I met John Bear, I was a drunk on Skid Row. I had to resort to selling my body for pennies so I could afford to buy another bottle of cheap Ripple, in which I would drown my sorrows and bemoan my fate. Then one day, a hand reached down to me in the gutter. A soothing voice said, "Son, I bring you salvation - the key to earning a degree by distance." And he placed into my hands a book. Yes, it was John Bear. He lifted me up from the deep, bottomless pit into which I had fallen [note proper placement of the preposition], dusted me off there in the pit of degradation, and said, "Believe! You can be a bachelor, a master, and even a doctor! Believe!" Yes, I had been dancing with the devil in the pale moonlight until John Bear came along and rescued me from the tomb of aimless destruction. And today I am a doctor. And I sell my body for a hell of a lot more money. Okay, next!
You mean . . . you mean that was you, Steve, that I found on the sidewalk that day, outside the projects in Kensington? I never knew. And I wonder at times if you ever knew that before I placed The Book in your hands, I pried out the copy of the MIGS catalog that you were clutching, and tossed it in the gutter. We've both come a long way in the three months since that day. Bless you, my son. John
