mail() funtion issues

[peppino]

basically, when a message with an apostrohie ( ' ) gets sent with this code the apostrophie is not parsed correctly and shows up like this in the email the person gets joe's will = joe\'s

how can i fix this?? my code is below

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<?PHP
$subject = "$thesubject";
$themessage = "$themessage

Your friend sent you this message:
$themessage

";

mail($eventInvites, $subject, $message, "From: $emailfromname<$emailfromemail>\nX-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());

?>

[drew010]

change
mail($eventInvites, $subject, $message, "From: $emailfromname<$emailfromemail>\nX-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());
to
mail($eventInvites, $subject, stripslashes($message), "From: $emailfromname<$emailfromemail>\nX-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion());