thanks to the leadership of working with senator day willie hutchison and indeed a treasured friend, we come together once a month like the girls do once a week in friendship and fellowship. we work on a badge called women's health. since we've done that, we have increased breast cancer research 900%. the help that we gave to the nih that resulted in the famous hormone study has reduced breast cancer mortality by 15%. so we want the girl scouts to keep on being the girl scouts. that is, we worked on our badges, you work on those badges. and let me say a word about the cookies. first of all, i love the cookies. i never met a calorie i didn't like or a hand i didn't want to shake. but also, it was there that we learned about entrepreneurship. about business plans. about marketing. and most of all, we learned about, if you buy it, you own it, and you got to sell it. but i think what we also learned really when we look back on those years, we would talk about two things. one, the friendship with other girls. and i would encourage you through your life to keep on doing that. and the other