In a message dated 3/7/2007 7:28:03 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: I wrote: "I do know shaving cream leaves a long lasting stain, if not an etching, on cement." It is not a cleaner stain as Brock Way suggests, it is darker than the surrounding walkway cement. We were hopeful the sun would eventually "bleach it out", but it took many years before it was visibly gone when dry. When wet, it still appeared as a darker than the cement stain even after more than ten years. It was written in shaving cream in the Fall of 1979, it was still visible when wet when we moved in 1992. I could call the current owners to "perform an experiment" to see if it still remains when wet today...I know they mentioned something about it a few years ago so I can safely assume it was still visible when wet ... say some twenty years. Linda R.F. Arnold Menifee, California P.S. Although the girlfriend-boyfriend relationship dissolved long before the message, we still consider her a part of our family even today although she may never appear in our Family Tree. The message she wrote was: "I love you, Doug!" <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.