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From: David Brown, MD
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2007 2:49 AM
To: Wealth Alliance Members
Subject: My Memories of Sue Riek
Debra, Marilyn, Dave, Carmen, Kathy, Karen, and everyone, I am sitting here absolutely stunned and in complete shock uponreading the news that Sue Riek died in her sleep last week from heartfailure. It was just eleven days ago that I said goodbye to her asshe was sitting waiting for her bus to come pick her up at the Imperial
Palace
and take her to the helicopter which was going to take her over the
Grand Canyon. Sue was very engaged in a conversationwith one of the IP employees learning more from him about thehelicopter rides over the Canyon. Sue liked to say that she never meta stranger, because, if they seemed like a stranger at first, they certainly weren’t after Sue flashed her incredibly warm smile andstarted chatting with them. She gained people’s confidence and trustalmost instantly and she was truly an incredibly warm and caring humanbeing. I first met Sue at the SMART Seminar around July 20 of this year. She was the “old-timer” and I was a newcomer in the Wealth Alliance Groupand she made me feel very welcome with her wonderful smile and down-to-earth nature. I wanted to spend more time there getting to know her,but for various reasons, we never connected outside of class. I liked all the first class members that I met there (and also from the secondclass), but I felt more of a connection with Sue. I probably actuallytalked more with Marilyn, though, and Marilyn knows that was verylittle talking.
When Freedom Factor convened in Vegas, I was reallypleased to see that Sue had made it and I was determined to spend sometime with her this time and learn more about her and her business. I had invited Kathy, my ex, to attend Freedom Factor with me and shewas very pleased that she came to this event. We sat at a table withSue on one of the days and Kathy commented to me about how much sheliked Sue and how friendly and approachable she was. We talked alittle in our room about the people that we had met there and Kathysaid that Sue and Casper were her favorites.
When Freedom Factor wasbreaking up, Sue told me that she had an interesting story to tellinvolving a big name Internet Marketer about something that hadhappened in Las Vegas just since we had been there. She said to besure to read her blog at www.SueRiek.com to find out the details. Istarted thinking ‘what kind of a juicy story is Sue going to tell’? Iasked her ‘does it involve Armand or Debra’? She said no, that itwasn’t someone at Freedom Factor, but it was someone she was sure thatI would know. She said that the story wasn’t finished yet and she hadto get to the Strip (15 miles away) for the conclusion of the story.That really got my curiosity up. She had to be there in about an hourso she was going to call a cab. I told her that she didn’t need to dothat because I had rented a car and Kathy and I were staying at theMonte Carlo on the strip, anyway, and would be driving back, and I washappy to give her a ride. She said that if I gave her a ride, shewould tell me the story on the way to the strip. She said that herroommate, Carmen, and another lady,
Karen, were planning to check out
the strip that night (Sunday, August 26) because they hadn’t been toVegas before, and she asked if they could come, too. I said noproblem, but I had only rented a compact car, so the three of themwould have to get cozy in the back. They were all fine with that (atleast until they saw the back seat). Sue went around the Red Rocksaying her goodbyes to more people and I overheard her telling them tomake sure to read her blog at SueRiek.com next week to learn aboutthis incredible story. Everyone did manage to cram into the Saturn Ion that I had rented,although Sue commented that she felt like she had gotten a livertransplant with one of the women and a kidney transplant with theother. She told us all the story on the way to the strip of how shelost her wallet and was afraid that she may have been pickpocketed orpossibly left it in the cab on the way to the Beatles tribute “Love”performed by Cirque du Soleil, which she absolutely raved about. Shecalled it the best show that she had ever seen and well worth the $140ticket price. She was understandably upset about losing her wallet,but she said she decided that she was not going to let that ruin herevening since the Cirque du Soleil show had been so phenomenal. Asyou know, she found out from her credit card company that a man namedDave had found her wallet sitting on the seat of the taxicab that hegot in at the Mirage and he had left his number for her to call.When she called the number, she got a voice message that said “Youhave reached Dave Lakhani at Bold Approach.” She hung up and checkedto make sure that she had dialed the number correctly. She was prettycertain that she had misdialed it or else this was the biggestcoincidence that she had ever experienced in her life. When sherealized that she had dialed it correctly, she praised God and gavethanks. Then she called back and got Dave on the phone this time.She told him who she was and that she had signed up for his PR coursein February and he told her that he was certain that he knew her, buthe couldn’t figure out from where. He was as happy as she was that hehad found her wallet. They arranged to meet the next day at theVenetian after Freedom Factor ended so Dave could return Sue’s walletto her. That’s where we were headed – to the Venetian to meet DaveLakhani.
I was very excited myself to be able to meet Dave in personand Sue was absolutely ecstatic – really tickled pink. When you thinkabout it, the odds against what happened actually happening had to bea billion to one or more. Sue was attending an Internet MarketingSeminar put on by Armand Morin in Las Vegas and she gets a cab to theMirage to see a show. She gets out of the cab and the person who hopsin the cab right after her is another well-known Internet Marketer,and, not only that, but he’s the ONLY other Internet Marketer besidesDebra that Sue had ever signed up with to receive more continuingeducation.
There simply must be a higher purpose for this entirechain of events. It’s very very late now (2:30AM PDT) and I’m getting too tired towrite coherently, so I’m going to call it a night and pick this upagain some time later today (Sunday). In the next ‘episode’, I willtell you about fighting the taxicabs and crushing traffic at theVenetian, our encounter with Dave including my filming a short videoof Dave and Sue for Dave Lakhani’s blog, and our adventures on thestrip that night and all day Monday, August 27, 2007. I really missSue. In the brief time that we knew each other, she became one of myvery favorite people on this earth. Now she’s one of my very favoritepeople in Heaven, along with my father, Walt, my father-in-law, Buz,my brother, Dick, and my mother-in-law, Dolores, and a few more. Sayhi to my Dad and brother and Buz and Dolores, will you Sue? I know that You’re not going to meet any strangers in heaven …
Dave Brown
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