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I am an expert in urban legends, faxlore, and related chain e-mails. Check with me before "FORWARDING THIS TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!" to see if it has any validity.

Experience in the area

I have been reading about and studying Urban Legends and folklore as a hobby for many years now.

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Celia08/29/10101010 
Masoud01/03/10101010Thank you so much dear Cassandra
Spyder10/03/09101010 
Tori02/21/0910 
Ray02/02/09101010Clear, concise and very polite. Thanks!

Recent Answers from Cassandra

2011-03-02 forwarding urban legends:

Dear Roland,    An excellent question indeed!  If you find a good solution let me know too!    Seriously, I've seen less of a problem with email now that people are more interested in forwarding things

2010-11-01 Austrailian presedent speech:

Dear Jim,    There's no question here, so I'll just provide you with some links to sites that have done research on this and similar emails to separate the truth of them from the falsehood.    http://www

2010-09-16 57 cent donation:

Well, this sort of thing often circulates in many, many forms, some of which stretch the truth.    But the Snopes site (www.snopes.com) has investigated the story, and found that there *was* a story about

2010-08-26 Horse Urban Legends:

Dear Celia,    I couldn't think of any off the top of my head so I did a Google search for you using "urban legend horse" as my criteria and turned up the following results.    Hope you enjoy reading them!

2010-05-15 chain letter:

Dear T,    I answered similar questions a few times before:  http://en.allexperts.com/q/Urban-Legends-3056/chain-letter.htm  http://en.allexperts.com/q/Urban-Legends-3056/2008/2/chain-letter-1.htm    

 

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