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Originally Posted by Tommi

Welcome to the new world where the air is fresh and clean Cathy

I received a strange item in the mail yesterday. It was actually handwritten correspondence: and envelope with my daughter's handwriting , a letter and school photographs of my grandest kids. Smiling Trinity Hope who is 4 and pensive Dustin Bradley who is 6. She wrote of missing me, and California and the life she had being raised by two "sorta" women. She spoke of her first adventures in the snow when she was 4, when we bought a place in the mountains and we made a snowman together, and the trip on the chartered bus with 30 5th graders to Sacramento because I had to be a chaperon, and me in a wetsuti chaperoning at Catalina in 7th grade. She said she smiles everytime she sees big clouds, because it reminds her of when the Ex and I used to tell her we saw things in the big fluffy white mashed potato's, and we painted together.

She is a good girl, albeit all grown up, and married a guy she met on the internet and I told ya so,...and I was thrilled to get a letter. Will i write back without spell check..probably ~~ maybe, just because

{{{{{Tommi}}}}} What a gift! My best childhood friend and I corresponded in letters whenever we weren't in the same place, like during the summers and then some when we went to college. We both loved the film "The Scarlet Pimpernel" starring Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey and Merle Oberon. So we had a habit of signing our letters as Chauvelin (her) and Sir Percy (me), with such silliness as "Your humble servant" and the like. She was a gifted artist who could draw the most incredible detailed tiny things, and to this day I have some of her letters tucked away, and they really are treasures, especially as we lost contact in our early 20s.

Anyway, even without the references to that novel and film, the pleasures in a letter written in pen and ink, without spell check, are many. Hopefully in another week or so I shall buy some pretty stationery and begin to revive that in my life!
Cathy
P.S. This site really does seem to be blessed with freshness and clean air!