Missive Dated April 20

I went out to the shed to look at it again yesterday. I can’t believe you worked on it so long without any of us noticing. It’s kind of remarkable come to think of it, even though we will never be able to show it to anyone.

It gives me kind of a demented pride to think that someone from our birth level could have done it.

We.

You.

When I think back to the more simple times when it was just us as kids laying on our backs out in the fields on the side of the hill; imagining a life or a fate or future outside of the mines. When we noticed the globs cresting the rise, you would make fun of me for calling them ‘globs’ and tried to teach me whatever they are really called. I still never understood how you knew how everything worked. Imagining us living in such a mass even today fires the imagination. If someone told me even now that you lived in one and traveled the world in such luxury, I would have to say I believed them. You certainly have the talent that they are always looking for anyway.

Harriet is getting married next month.