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To: jerrylives@freemail.com<br />

From: Jason Trent <br />

Subject: HI UNCLE JOHN<br />

IT'S US, HALEY AND BRITTANY. MOMMY AND DADDY ARE HAVING A BIG<br />

FIGHT OVER WHAT YOU SHOULD DO ABOUT THE RED-HEADED LADY.<br />

MOMMY SAYS YOU SHOULD CALL HER UP AND ASK HER OUT TO DINNER.<br />

DADDY SAYS YOU SHOULD GET THERAPY.<br />

IF YOU MARRY THE RED HEADED LADY, WILL SHE BE OUR AUNT?<br />

WHEN ARE YOU COMING TO SEE US? WE MISS YOU. WE HAVE BEEN VERY<br />

GOOD. EVERY TIME THAT VEIN IN DADDY’S HEAD STARTS TO TURN<br />

PURPLE WE SING THAT SONG YOU TAUGHT US, JUST LIKE YOU SAID TO.<br />

YOU KNOW WHICH SONG. THE ONE ABOUT DIARRHEA.<br />

WELL, WE HAVE TO GO, DADDY SAYS TO GET OFF HIS DESK. WRITE SOON!!!<br />

LOVE,<br />

BRITTANY AND HALEY<br />

To: Mel Fuller <br />

From: jerrylives@freemail.com<br />

Subject: baseball sized hail, and other weather anomalies<br />

Dear Melissa,<br />

Sorry it took me so long to get back to you. I had some business that needed tending to.<br />

But it looks like it’s all more or less in order now--at least, as much as it can be for the<br />

moment. It's sweet of you to offer to visit my aunt with me, but you really don't have to.<br />

Wait. Stop. I know what you're going to say. So to cut you off at the chase, might I suggest<br />

that we do it tomorrow evening, if you don't already have plans?<br />

And I think I will take this opportunity to discuss something that has been weighing<br />

somewhat heavily on my conscience ever since we met: <strong>The</strong> great debt I owe you for<br />

saving my aunt's life. Stop. Again, I know what you're going to say. But the fact of the<br />

matter is, you did exactly that. <strong>The</strong> police told me so. So although it is rather an inadequate<br />

means of expressing my immense gratitude and appreciation for what you did, I was hoping that<br />

you'd let me take you out to dinner some night. And since I know how deeply this will offend your<br />

Midwestern sensibilities, I am prepared to let you pick the restaurant, lest you worry that I<br />

might choose a place destined to bankrupt me. Think it over and let me know. As you are aware,<br />

my evenings are, thanks to Paco, quite free from seven until eleven--eleven thirty when I forget<br />

to fill his water bowl.<br />

Sincerely,<br />

John<br />

PS Did you see that thing on the Weather Channel last night? Why is it that people who

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