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This is part of my 31 Day Five Minute Free Writes challenge within a challenge. I will be linking up with 31 Day Challenge at The Nester's as well as at Heading Home. For a list of all my letters you can go here.



Dear Richard:

One of the happiest memories I have of our life together is when you wanted to have the grandkids join us whenever we took trips. They were lucky, little kids to get to travel with us. A couple of trips to Colorado to show them where you vacationed as a child and where their dads spent summers too. We took them with us to the Kansas City area quite a bit. Especially when Paige moved up that way. One of the trips that we all looked forward to every autumn was going to the Renaissance Festival at Bonner Springs. Wasn't it fun the first time we took them there. 

We first shopped for costumes. You thought they would have so much more fun if they

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joined in and dressed the part. I tried to get you to dress also. You looked at me like I had two heads. Fun for the kids. But undignified for a dignified man like you. You were never too dignified to sit on a bench and gnaw on a turkey leg or flirt with a beer wench. Oh the memories these kiddos will always have of the fun times created by their beloved Papa. The last time we went it was freezing cold. Do you remember? Not nearly as much fun as romping through those woods on a clear, crisp fall day as we felt the leaves and twigs crunch underfoot. 

We're not going this year! Too painful! Too soon. But we might go next year. Maybe you'll join us.

All my love,

Paula