From: gone.bananas517@gmail.com   
      
       Ed Conrad contacted us to say he had the date wrong   
   when he wrote that original newspaper column, "How to Get   
   Your Guardian Angel's Name."   
      
       He said it actually appeared on Easter Sunday in 2002,   
   not on Easter Sunday in 1982.   
      
       Granted, Ed didn't miss by much but -- Let's face it --   
   it still was an error.   
      
       So we'll have to do it all over again.   
      
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        After my newspaper column -- "How to Get Your Guardian   
   Angel's Name" -- appeared in the Hazleton (Pa.) Standard-   
   Speaker on Easter Sunday in 2002, the reaction from readers   
   was by far the greatest I have ever experienced in my entire   
   newspaper career.   
      
        This is that original column -- every word true -- and   
   then you can read my follow-up column based on the reaction   
   to the first one.   
      
   https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.fan.ed-conrad/GVMHWR8ENt8   
      
                     THE FOLLOW-UP COLUMN   
      
             YOUR GUARDIAN ANGEL JUST A WHISPER AWAY   
      
       George Fetchko went to a wake the other night and was astonished   
   that he was more popular than the corpse.   
      
       "People at the viewing were coming up to me and asking about   
   my Guardian Angel," said George, a Standard-Speaker composing room   
   employee for decades.   
      
       George admitted it was a bit embarrassing getting so much attention   
   but had to tell everyone how he learned his Guardian Angel's name: Adam.   
      
       He said one person at the wake revealed that he tried it, too, and   
   also came hit the jackpot.   
      
       Fetchko is just one of many folks who tried the simple experiment   
   by politely asking his or her Guardian Angel's name before falling   
   asleep.   
      
       The response to the column I wrote on Easter Sunday has been quite   
   remarkable, to say the least.   
      
       For example, Mrs. Theresa Sporay of McAdoo excitedly phoned to say   
   she had asked -- and received -- the name Stephen, and said she couldn't   
   be more pleased.   
      
       "In fact, I was SO excited that I called my daughter in Philadelphia   
   Monday morning and told her," she said. "She told me, 'Mom, I'm going   
   to try it,' then phoned me back early Tuesday morning and told me   
   her Guardian Angel's name is Michael.   
      
       "Then my sister came over -- she tried it, too -- and came up with   
   Gabriel."   
      
       Mrs. Sporay kiddingly added that the phenomena is bound to grow and   
   row "because it now has hit Philly."   
      
       All these people had to do to get their Guardian Angel's name was   
   simply request it when they went to bed -- not necessarily on bended   
   knee.   
      
       There need be no formal manner, just a request -- in a nice way --   
   as if talking to your best friend.   
      
       Wendy Naprava, our advertising representative, went out to make her   
   rounds one morning this week and was all aglow upon her return to   
   the office.   
      
       She said not one, not two, not three but four of the people -- all   
   women -- she called on told her they learned their Guardian Angel's   
   names.   
      
       Respectively, the names were Frederick, Adrian, Catherine and Lucy.   
      
       The reaction is about the same in no matter what direction we've turned.   
      
       Francine Mehalshick of Hazleton, the genial postmaster at the Broad   
   Street sub-station, didn't read the original article but learned about   
   it two days later.   
      
       She tried it that night and -- Bingo! -- Gabriel.   
      
       "The incredible thing is that the next night I asked my Guardian   
   Angel if he could tell me the name of my husband Frank's Guardian   
   Angel.   
      
       "I awoke in the morning with the name Jason all over the place,"   
   said Francine. "I couldn't get Jason out of my head."   
      
       On and on it went.   
      
       In District Magistrate William Slezosky's office in Mahanoy City,   
   for example, Victoria (Vicci) Brown of Shenandoah Heights was quite   
   excited. She had read the article and was a bit skeptical that it   
   would work.   
      
       She said it indeed worked and learned her Guardian Angel's name   
   is Ella.   
      
       "And I don't know any Ella's," she said. "Only Ella Fitzgerald   
   (the famous singer)."   
      
       Over at the First Federal Bank on Broad Street, three of the   
   tellers gleefully reported they had hit the jackpot.   
      
   Michelle Sobolowski came up with Ryan, Sharon Cicioni with Chi Chi   
   and Linda Mantush with Austin.   
      
       The tellers reported that some customers are casually mentioning   
   having tried the experiment and said it works.   
      
       Sobolowski said a Patti from an accounting office next door to the   
   bank told her she learned her Guardian Angel's name is Abigail.   
      
       "And Patti told me she never even knows -- or knew -- an Abigail,"   
   she said.   
      
       Complete strangers have been calling the Standard-Speaker,   
   conveying the good news.   
      
       Vicki Gennaro of McAdoo, who works here, said a member of her family   
   tried the experiment and came up with Charles.   
      
       She said it was even more fascinating because he had asked for his   
   full name and got a glimpse of his Guardian Angel's last name as well,   
   also being informed that he had been a cartoonist.   
      
       The beat goes on and on!   
      
       Kristen Tragus of Lost Creek, who works for a nursing agency, was   
   delighted when she came up with Hannah.   
      
       Over in Beaver Meadows, a wife reported that she is a bit saddened   
   because she tried it and came up empty-handed -- this happens.   
      
       However, she revealed that her husband, Michael, tried it and learned   
   his Guardian Angel's name is Rose.   
      
       It was just another case of a man learning his Guardian Angel has   
   a woman's name.   
      
       Longtime and newly retired Standard-Speaker ad man Jack Davis excitedly   
   phoned to report that he came up with Angeline.   
      
       A female member of the S-S advertising department - shy about having   
   her name used -- said she keeps forgetting to try the experiment but   
   happily reported that her husband tried it and came up with the name   
   Mary.   
      
      She was asked how he felt, getting a woman's name.   
      
      She said he was happy and told her he knew a wonderful, kind, old   
   woman named Mary who was a neighbor while he was growing up in   
   Freeland.   
      
      She said he wonders - just wonders -- if his Guardian Angel just   
   might be her.   
      
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1mQT1u_45I   
      
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     IF YOU'RE REALLY, REALLY LUCKY, YOU MAY GET CLARENCE   
      
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