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By Anne Pannone

Add Comment | Comments: 0 | Posted Dec. 1, 2011

To the Editor:

I am writing this letter with the hope that the person who stole Jaime Pannone’s locked bicycle and helmet near the Philly Marathon start site will read this.

I call my daughter Jaime the Mother Teresa of Philadelphia because her humanitarianism touches the lives of young and old throughout this city every day. In addition to working a full-time job, Jaime volunteers hundreds of hours a year to Philadelphia Reads, Back on My Feet, Neighborhood Bike Works and Musicians on Call. In fact, the donations Jaime raised for her completion of the Philadelphia Marathon she is generously donating to Back on My Feet.

When she told me her bike and helmet were stolen, Jaime, with her ever positive attitude, knew she needed to move forward and not dwell on this theft. To the person who stole my daughter’s bike and helmet, I hope you can see in this letter that Jaime will continue to spend her life helping others to be happy, to move ahead in their lives and not to succumb to negativity. I hope that you find it in your heart to make changes in your life to also move ahead and learn from your mistake. You stole Jaime’s stuff, but you didn’t steal her spirit.

Anne Pannone
South Philadelphia

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