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kpete

(72,014 posts) Sat Feb 28, 2015, 10:41 PM Feb 2015

Spock’s Advice To A Teenage Girl Will Make You Cry

In 1968, Leonard Nimoy was moved by a girl’s difficulty fitting in, so he wrote to her about how Spock overcame prejudice.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/leonoraepstein/spocks-advice-to-a-teenage-girl-will-make-you-cry?utm_term=.yl8zGZ2aB8#.ka6N4Q1dK

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Spock’s Advice To A Teenage Girl Will Make You Cry (Original Post) kpete Feb 2015 OP

, blkmusclmachine Feb 2015 #1

some actors simply have a lucky draw DonCoquixote Mar 2015 #2

A beautiful soul shines through this letter BrotherIvan Mar 2015 #3

Pretty high-class advice from a Tiger Beat type magazine. ND-Dem Mar 2015 #4

It'd be high class advice in ANY magazine! n/t deafskeptic Mar 2015 #5

That is absolutely beautiful. hifiguy Mar 2015 #6

blkmusclmachine

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Sat Feb 28, 2015, 11:28 PM

Feb 2015

DonCoquixote

(13,616 posts)

2. some actors simply have a lucky draw

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Sun Mar 1, 2015, 12:15 AM

Mar 2015

and a great role is thrust upon them. Sometimes I wonder if William Shatner is such. As far as Nimoy and Takei, you can tell that they both saw a chance to use their role, not merely to be great characters, but to become great people.

BrotherIvan

(9,126 posts)

3. A beautiful soul shines through this letter

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Sun Mar 1, 2015, 03:56 AM

Mar 2015

This hits very close to home. He is correct. How generous to want to share that with this young woman and the world.

ND-Dem

(4,571 posts)

4. Pretty high-class advice from a Tiger Beat type magazine.

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Sun Mar 1, 2015, 04:02 AM

Mar 2015

deafskeptic

(463 posts)

5. It'd be high class advice in ANY magazine! n/t

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Sun Mar 1, 2015, 05:46 PM

Mar 2015

hifiguy

(33,688 posts)

6. That is absolutely beautiful.

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Sun Mar 1, 2015, 06:02 PM

Mar 2015

Who's chopping onions in here?

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