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Let's solve this mystery: Is it "How Do You Live Your Dash" or "The Dash"?

There have been some issues about a piece of poetry that has few titles, the one with "The Dash" is copyrighted as per Linda Elllis. Also it has some variants in the body of the poetry. There were some copyright posts on some forums. So I decided to look into this piece of poetry, that has the footprints of the early 90s era. An era when the email to friends boomed. So people would send their favorite jokes, advice, feel good emails on mass. This somehow seems to have originated during that era. Here is some findings that makes you think with so many with different titles from that era and most going signed anonymous or not signed at all. I'll also post my findings to all those issues and where they have appeared in the years continuing from the mid 90s into 2000s. One of triggers for this research is some posts by an auctioneer named April Brown warning people about this poetry, that's supposed to sooth those who have lost loved ones, has caused her such angui...

Congress.gov unveiled today

September 19, 2012 http://www.Congress.gov Unveiled Today Public Beta Site Provides Free, Fact-Based Legislative Information The Library of Congress, in collaboration with the U.S. Senate, House of Representatives and the Government Printing Office (GPO), today unveiled Congress.gov, a new public beta site for accessing free, fact-based legislative information. Congress.gov features platform mobility, comprehensive information retrieval and user-friendly presentation. Congress.gov , atbeta.congress.gov , eventually will replace the public THOMAS system and the congressional Legislative Information System (LIS). http://www.loc.gov/today/pr/2012/12-171.html