So what did you have to do to get your Gmail account?
I disowned my family, sold my soul to the devil, cut off one of my pinky toes with a meat cleaver, gave 15 blowjobs in one night...
...drank gasoline with a motor oil chaser, chewed on tinfoil for 5 hours, was tied naked to a tree, cut my own penis off...oh, and I paid $60 for it on eBay.
Did you know that Hotmail, Yahoo and other web services have free email? Not to mention most webhosting comes with POP3 email accounts.