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Please say "I love you" after the beep

A middle school classmate of mine was just written up in the New York Times for his efforts to cheer up a depressed friend.

Mr. Ng, a 26-year-old design student at the School of Visual Arts, decided to shower his disconsolate friend with the goodwill of strangers. He rented a $6-a-month voice mailbox and put up fliers around Union Square and the East Village bearing the phone number of the mailbox and a simple request: "Please say, 'I love you, Gary' after the beep."

He's received hundreds of calls from New Yorkers and is burning them to a CD.

Update: The flier and mp3s of messages are at Iloveyougary.org. (Thanks, Thomas!)