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An otherwise routine e-mail-checking session went wrong when college student Gwen Petersen, 20, accidentally opened a message sent by her Aunt Sophie in Michigan, sources reported Monday.
After correctly identifying the sender as KalamazooLady5237@aol.com, her mother’s sister and a 57-year-old guidance counselor present at Petersen’s birth, Petersen attempted to properly delete the unwanted correspondence as she had many times before. But one mistaken click of the mouse began an ordeal that would overtake Petersen’s in-box for several minutes—thrusting the history major into an HTML-formatted world she “never intended to see.”
“As soon as I clicked on it, I realized what I’d done, but by then it was too late,” Petersen told reporters following the error. “With as much time as I spent talking to her on her birthday and Thanksgiving, something like this was bound to happen. I should have been paying closer attention.”
The moment her computer’s hourglass icon finished spinning, Petersen was subjected to a vast compendium of mass-circulated poetry, pet humor, and inspirational aphorisms with vague underlying religious motivations. Without needing to scroll down, Petersen further noted that the e-mail featured a background wallpaper of cartoon ducks, as well as numerous typographical errors and a large banner spelling out “You got 2 love this!” in a rainbow-colored, bouncing font.
