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fects me? That is why I keep plug- i ging along, writing this column. I • try to please the reader with humour and exaggeration, laughter or tears as long as someone comes * up and says "like it.”

I occasional espouse a serious cause, some people like that, some do not. A school teacher sometimes mentions that my tenses do not agree or my plurals are not in tune. But school teachers have to realize that I am not working hard at this nor am I trying to pass the course. Should I detire to write a book from this I will ask an old teacher for help.

When I create one of these i masterpieces I try to make be-; tween 400 and 500 words. Since I • am a bit short I want to reproduce 5 a letter (as well as I can remember t it) in the hope that it will move; you. I have permission from the< originator and recipient to publish as long ss the names are withheld.

The letter is from a father to his daughter. The daughter was despondent over fife’s career disappointments. The father rarely wrote letters but believed in this one's importance. It was a love. letter. pll;

“Dear Daughter,

I am in awe of your talent and

When your voice calls I am thrilled and when you touch me, I

I will love you all the rest at my life as I have since the day that you were bora.

I will miss you when I am gone. Daddy”

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