[Hank's story #2]
Howdy Bonnie,
Since I wrote you a year ago, things have changed around these parts. I have some news for you, even though you haven't replied to my last.
Sandra's baby, Polly, is walking now and she's a handful - getting into everything and cheering us all up every day. She got a bit sickly for a while and we feared the plague had got her but it was just the usual baby stuff.
Haven't heard from Cousin Ned for a while. Heard he's spending a bit of time in the stockade for going AWOL. He just wanted to visit Polly.
Jack broke his shinbone and can't play baseball for a while. I have to deliver his papers while riding his bike because the carb on the pickup needs repair. Matt at the garage has ordered parts to fix it. I'll be doing him some favors to pay for it all.
Cissie met a decent guy and they're having a good time together. She's acting nicer now, which is a relief. hehe Lucas is the strong silent type, just what she needs.
We lost the brown barn cat that you were fond of - hit by a truck and crawled through the ditch to the house looking for help, but didn't make it. She's buried behind the old horse barn.
I met a nice lady, a nurse. Lily. There was a benefit at the Baptist church for Fireman Ricky and she stopped in, even though she's an atheist. Well, so am I. She works at a hospital in the city but lives down here near the lake in a cabin that her husband built before he died. She loves the kids and they're easy with her.
It's nice because we never fight and we laugh a lot.
She has kindness in her eyes and a good heart.
Look, Bonnie, if you plan on coming home, you should tell me fast because me and Lily are starting to have feelings for each other.
Ok, truth be told - Ned isn't in the army and he's not in the stockade. He's in prison. Jacob and him robbed a store in the city. They waved guns around and got caught. There was only $27.35 in the cash register. 6 years for armed robbery.
Well, I guess I'd better close this now and send it off.
Let me know if you're coming back.
Hank
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