Things I have to tell No 3.... and 4!

From when I was a small child

to right up until I left home

I was a prolific letter writer

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If you were related to me,

a school friend,

if you had me to stay,

if you gave me a gift

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I wrote you a letter

if you were a boyfriend 

I wrote you many a letter!

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After I had finished the letter

 I would address the envelope with great care

I would race downstairs to my Father

and beg a stamp

but it had to be a pretty stamp!!

back upstairs, stamp on

I would put it in my top drawer to reread tomorrow

just to make sure it sounded alright

                                                                                                       Don't know where this beauty came from

Now the time came when it was time to leave home

the time came to marry

the time came for my Mother to get rid of the junk

I left behind

We had left the chest that sat in my dressing room

and my Mother thought she would take it downstairs

but it was too heavy

So...

she opened the drawers and found

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letters...

hundreds of letters

all addressed and stamped

with penny stamps and every thing else 

up to  5 cent stamps!

(not a big jump in nearly 20 years!!!)

Not one of those  letters 

had ever been sent!!!!

in her wisdom my Mother 

took those letters to the Sydney GPO

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where the Postmaster, when told the story

agreed to send the letters as they were

this is a long time ago and Postmasters could decide things like that then

                                   Taken a bit of a Liberty here Benjamin Franklin image from Google

Nearly everyone who received one of those letters wrote back

and said some really lovely things

but

not one of those letters was addressed to me

they were all addressed to my MOTHER!!!!!!!!

So now I don't write letters, not many emails, and I try very hard

to reply to you all but occasionally I hold back the reply

to improve it and, you guessed it, it stays in my draft file!

I never draft my blog I sit, write and publish

Frequently I have to edit horrendous spelling mistakes 

and statements I didn't mean to make 

but at least they get published!

If I comment on your blog it has taken

real effort to press the send button

without previewing,

so if I ever offend I appologise now

as it would not have been meant

I just write too quickly and sometimes it

doesn't come out how it should!

There are now 15 draft blogs on file that I know

will never see the light of day

as my Mum is no longer with me to send them

There you have things 3 and 4 I have to tell

and I think I know who I will pass the award on to...I think!!

Goodnight.