Simple jQuery popup function

Hi.

I’m a designer wading into developer waters and could use a little help. Please assume I know nothing about programming if you reply (much appreciated).

I am showing a snippet of a testimonial and want it so that when someone clicks “read more” a modal shadowbox pops up with the full testimonial. Right now nothing happens when I click the link. I have spent hours and hours trying to fudge my way through this but despite my best effort -and dozens of google searches and articles read- I’ve yet to figure it out.

Any help you can provide this Photoshop guy would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks.

Here are the details:

I’m using the Genesis framework with the Altitude Pro child theme.

This is the page I’m working on: http://www.donmportfolio.com/testimonials

This is the jQuery script I’m using inside the page content area:

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