We are cureently involved in a letter wirting campaign to Oprah. Below you will find the request along with a sample letter to be sent to Oprah.
If you could write a letter to Oprah on my behalf encouraging her
to help me in my plight I would greatly appreciate it. My hope is
that we will send so many letters to her she won't be able to ignore
them. So below is a letter that I have already written out for
you... You can send this letter to her as is or use it as a template
to write your own which I prefer,telling Oprah why you think she
should help me!.
Oprah's Contact address is:
The Oprah Winfrey
Show
PO Box 618180
Chicago, IL 60661
or copy and
paste the letter* into the form provided on the Oprah.com website
Thank
you all for your help!
* this letter has been
rewritten due to the original letter being to long if your decide to
write your own letter please be aware that it cannot exceed 2,000
words please send everything that is in italics
below
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I am writing this letter to you on
behalf of my friend Melodie in San Francisco who could greatly use
your help. Melodie is a 49 year old woman who due to a traumatic
brain injury at a young age, has many troubles regarding her brain
functioning, with a focus on her short term memory and problems with
her cognitive abilities. The side effects of her brain injury and
additional difficulties(including ADHD and OCD) as caused her to
start hoarding. Her brain injury has left her unable to recall the
location of physical objects. Melodie's hoarding behavior is
something she has repetitively asked, and tried to get help with but
her memory problems make this difficult, in addition to many people
misunderstanding the ways her disability truly causes her to
function. This built up until November 17th 2000, Adult
Protective Services along with her landlord arranged a dumpster to
be placed outside and began hauling *ANYTHING* made of cardboard or
wood and it's contents into the dumpster. This eventually led to her
in her current state of homeless, her possessions spread into
three separate storages.
SO! What is it that Melodie needs from you Oprah? She's needs someone to come and help her train and rehabilitate her brain. This is what Melodie has to say herself about her needs."I desperately need professional organizer help especially to be ready to set up a new living environment tailored for my memory retrieval deficits. Specifically, I need someone to assist Identifying what is essential for ME to function. Not what they would find essential to function OR what they *IMAGINE* I need to function." She is willing to give up possessions provided she adequately knows she has what is needed for her to function. She is capable of upholding a system if the system is created according of what she needs.
More information can be found at http://www.helpmelodie.com