TASK DEFINITION: Given a text, write a compressed version of it in a single sentence.
PROBLEM: I thank you for your last gift of $-. I hope you will remain a contributor and even consider honoring our 25 years of storytelling by increasing your gift $25 this year.

SOLUTION: Thanks for your gift of $-. I hope you continue donating and honoring our 25 years of storytelling by adding to your gift $25.

PROBLEM: I 've had a look at the magazine's upcoming subjects and I can tell you the best is yet to come.

SOLUTION: Looking at the upcoming subjects on magazine's, the best is yet to come.

PROBLEM: A woman dressed in a blue veil or the blue habit of a nun who appeared to help the sick and the afflicted during the seventeenth century. Legends of the appearance of the Blue Lady circulated in New Mexico and Texas during the mid-1600s.

SOLUTION:
The Legends of the Blue Lady circulated in New Mexico and Texas during the mid-1600s. A woman dressed in a blue veil help the sick during the seventeenth century.