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To: Mel Fuller
From: Max Friedlander
Subject: My aunt
I just thought you might be interested to know that I found out from her physician that
my aunt was moved out of the ICU a month ago. She is now in a private room. She is,
of course, still in a coma, but she can be visited any day between four and seven o'clock.
Her prognosis, I'm sorry to say, is not good.
Max Friedlander
To: Mel Fuller
From: Stacy Trent
Subject: John
Dear Ms. Fuller,
You don't know me, but you do know my brother-in-law, John. I am sorry to write to this way,
seeing as how we've never actually been introduced, but I couldn't sit still and watch what was
happening between you and John without saying something.
Melissa--I hope you don't mind if I call you Melissa; I feel like I know you, from all the
talking John's done about you--I know that what John and his friend Max did was very
very wrong. I was completely shocked when I heard about it. In fact, I urged him to tell
you the truth from the very beginning. But he was afraid you'd be so mad at him, you wouldn't
want to have anything to do with him...a fear which unfortunately proved well founded. And so he
chose instead to wait for that "perfect moment" to tell you.
Except that, as you or I could have told him, there is no perfect moment to hear that the
person you have fallen in love with has misrepresented himself in some way.
I am not saying that you do not have ample reason to be furiously, even murderously
angry with John. And I absolutely adored the creative manner in which you got back at
him. But don't you think he has suffered long enough? Because he *is* suffering, very badly.
Why, when he came by the other night to see the baby--I just had my third, a boy we named
John after my twin daughters' favorite uncle (see? He's well-liked by children, which means he
can't be all bad) he looked quite dreadful. I swear he's lost at least ten pounds. I know how
maddening men can be (do I ever--I've been married to John's older brother Jason for a
decade), but I also remember from my single days how truly hard it is to find a good one...and
that's what John is, despite what you might think, based on his behavior towards you so far.
Won't you please give him a second chance? He really is crazy about you--and I can prove it.
I'd like to offer you John's own words, in emails he has sent to me over the course of the past