Dear Friend:

Have you heard a record by Tommy Edwards called "The Bridge"? It is an old poem set to music and tells of someone encountering an old man building a bridge over a stream he has already crossed. The passerby asks the old man why he bothers to build a bridge that he will never use and gets a reply that is very thought-provoking for all of us at One.

"I know that I shall never pass this way again," the old man says, "and I know that this bridge will not take away any of the hard work or the suffering I have endured on my journey. But there is a young man coming along this road later on. I am building this bridge for

him."

Many of you who read this may already have experienced the hardships encountered on the journey of life, and might well ask why you should support an organization that you yourself may never need. The answer isto help those young ones to come who have not yet traveled the hard road of being different.

If your gift could make their burdens just a very little less heavy, if it could spare even one from the heartaches of a heterosexual marriage destined from the outset for failure, or if it could give the