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considerable enlightenment in the last few months, we feel
pretty good knowing that we were still able to get a good
deal on deductions. We refigured the CPA's figures for the
sake of becoming learned, and now we know what and how he
did things to arrive at the most advantageous figure. The
way we have our 1959 expenditures planned, we hope that the
Internal Revenue fellows will be sending us missile money
next year

Together with Mike and Chick we are plotting how to be
pleasantly unhospitable. They have a worse problem than we
do. Whenever we have the luxury of staying home and plunging
into our projects together, somebody shows up, usually someone
we haven't got any particular reason to be impolite to,
someone without anything to do, who feels like a cup of coffee.
Jim charges for all the work he does on peoples' cars and bikes,
so we don't have too much trouble with those who wish to sponge,
but the problem of the time-consuming bore who wish to be
coffeed and entertained is yet to be solved. We haven't yet
told anyone just to leave, nor have Mike and Chick, but it is
not outside the realm of possibility. People with crummy
marriages just can't seem to understand that we like to stay
home and work on building things together.

Thank you for your Easter gift. Having a little more
time I have finished reading Denny's book, but Jim is still
in it. I can certainly understand why it is a critical success
but his subject matter could have been a little richer.
I hope that's not the only topic he's got, as it has been a
long time germinating. It is essentially the same story he
told me in the form of a personal anectdote over three years
ago. His next book should give a more rounded picture of what
Denny the author really consists of. Cosmopolitan though he
is, I would not be at all surprised to find that he has some
pretty wide gaps and limitations in the gamut of emotions at
his command.

Hope that your Easter was dryer than ours. We gave up on
drainage and Jim started installing a pump to keep the water
out of our garage. We did manage to take some time out from
our little flood control problems to get down and eat Easter
dinner and admire the new baby.

Must take time off from admiring the sunshine and get out
and do some Avon-ing. Will order you some rich moisture cream
and take the hand cream off of your order and credit it to the
next on the moisture cream.. The mascara was a mistake in my
catalog, as cake mascara does not come in light brown, just
plain brown.

Love, Marcy