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Have You Neglected Relationships With Family and Friends?

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Grandma doesn't email
You know you should call Mom and Dad, it's late and they're probably in bed
You forgot your nephew's 2nd birthday
Who would you call if you really needed help?

You just received a serious medical diagnosis. Your car needs to go to the shop for repair. Your parents are having health issues and you're not sure what to do. There's a great movie out you'd like to see. You'd like to have friends over for dinner. The weather is getting warmer and you want to go hiking, or it's snowing
and you want to ski. You heard a song on the radio that reminded you of an old friend.

Who comes to mind? Who do you call?

If keeping in touch with family and friends is important and on your "to do" list but time keeps slipping away there is a solution.

If there are times when you can barely keep up with your own life and would just like someone to know you're thinking about them keep reading.

If over the years you're embarrassed about losing track of good friends and wish you'd kept in touch, the solution is here.

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Sending a personal card by U.S mail at the touch of your fingertips in less than a minute at a cost of less than $1.00
Sending cards from your computer at any hour of the day
Choosing from over 30 categories, 30,000 cards and saving your "favorite" designs so they can easily be accessed again
Adding personal photos or sending gifts along with the card in minutes
Automating your entire holiday card list to send at once with the touch of a button
Never forgetting a birthday, anniversary or other special occasion by setting up a reminder list of important dates

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Enter your information below and we'll contact you to show you how to send two FREE cards to a friend, family member or even a business contact.

Friends and family are extremely important in times of crises or emergency. We never know when a crises, emergency or need will occur. If you haven't worked to maintain relationships you may have no one to call when you need help, a favor, advice or just someone who cares enough to listen.

Relationships are built upon the spirit of giving and mutual interest. How does it make you feel when someone is happy to see you, expresses interest, asks questions from a genuine basis of interest or just does something nice? You feel ten feet tall.

When we're young it's easy to make and maintain friends because we have a routine that supports social relationships that's called school, cub scouts or girl scouts, swim club, choir and a variety of other activities. Once we finish school and enter the work world this changes. We have more acquaintances than people we truly call friends. Our friends move away, get married, have children and we all get busy with our lives. Time passes and by the time we find ourselves in our 40's, 50's 60's and beyond unless we've worked really hard to maintain social relationships we find ourselves without a social network.

Research shows that individuals who maintain social networks, volunteer and remain active actually are healthier and age better than their friends. These individuals are also less affected by divorce or the passing of a spouse, both significant life changes that many will experience.

My work during the past ten years in the field of health care and aging has shown me personally the importance of keeping in touch with friends, family members and maintaining social networks. Even though I became aware of a way to make this happen more than a year ago, I resisted because I was stuck in the mindset that if a letter or card wasn't personally handwritten it wasn't good enough. But as time went by I found myself without the time to write personal letters and cards and was finally convinced to try something different.