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When you write you must tell me.
Now a few words about ourselves
and the family. I think you would
like to hear about us. In process
of time Mr Reid and myself have
grown old. During this year we
were both sick, and become very
feeble. Mr R has rallied faster
than myself, and is much better.
You would not know me, for my
flesh has gone, and my face is full
of wrinkles. You remember how ve-
ry fleshy I was, and now I am
very thin. I hope I will get well
some day, and be like myself a-
gain. I think the cold weather will
help me up hill. We have not had
very cold weather yet. Ella and
family live in Gastonia, and are
very pleasantly situated. Just to think
of Mabel being grown. She is in her
seventeenth year. She is a splendid girl.