Monday, December 1, 2008

To Mel Guymon from Shiakara

Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 15:44:40 -0800 (PST)



To Mel Guymon
Head of 3D Operations
Google Inc.

Dear Mr. Guymon,

First, I want to thank you for whatever part you had in bringing Lively to fruition. In the brief time that it has existed I have made friends with such amazing people. We may live thousands of miles apart and speak in a cacophony of native tongues but what Lively has done is allowed us to discover a common bond that connects us. In fact, I think it may be the single greatest bond that people can share. We have discovered the things that make us different are minimal and unimportant, they are brilliantly outshined by those things which make us the same. We all have joy and sorrows, triumphs and disappointments and incredible life stories waiting to be told.

We are not Matty Bears, Heathers and Hamlets, we are living breathing people who are sharing a marvelous experience. In this short time we have become a real community, a tiny Utopia of friends living in peaceful co-existence. You should be proud that Lively has allowed such a magical thing to happen.

I know it's your job to look at the bottom line and that even if you understand how we feel your obligations lie elsewhere. That is why we hang onto the hope, as a community, that we can somehow work with Google to come up with a way to ease the financial burden that keeping Lively would create.

Please respond to us, Mr. Guymon, as we anxiously await a reply from Google. Thank you for reading our letters.

Sincerely,
Shiakara, Proud to be a Livelyzen

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