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Seven years. 

I've been doing the Bike Rally for seven years. This will be my fifth time biking to Montreal (two years were in the Time We Don't Talk About). There's pre-bike rally Mark and there's post-bike rally Mark. Those are two different people. The first one was keeping a lot of pain inside and not sure what to do with it - and the other has let that pain out and is a more mature, accomplished person.

Waxing poetic aside, anyone who knows me knows how much this ride has changed my life - changed the very essence of who I am. I have been a team captain, I've been on the steering committee, I wrote an award-winning play about the Rally, and was given the David Linton Spirit Award on the ride last year. Not to mention I hadn't ridden a bike for fifteen years before my first rally. 

It's been an incredible journey, and I will continue on the journey as long as the stars align. And I will continue to raise money for the Foundation that caught me when I was falling fast after my HIV diagnosis.

And I hope you will continue to donate!

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Love,

Mark