Drew's friend Suzanne has a daughter, Jules, who is about to graduate from the University of Illinois with a degree in linguistics and head to China on a Fulbright scholarship (yay, Jules!). Today a package arrived from her, filled with all of her old Nancy Drew video games (I didn't know there was such a thing) and two lovely notes -- one for Rachel, one for me -- explaining that she was cleaning out her stuff and thought Rachel would like the games, and explaining that they didn't include any violence or sex, and that some of them started out easy but then became harder, and that she really enjoyed them, etc. It was such a lovely gesture that I was almost speechless.
Rachel was delighted and immediately -- without me prompting, while I was reading the note to me -- went to the study, got a thank-you card out of my desk, and immediately commenced writing a thank-you note to Jules, filled with details about how she loved reading Nancy Drew, and she loved Bess and George (two characters in the books, etc.). I was stunned by her sense of responsibility and gratified that she decided to write it ALL BY HERSELF.
Clearly, my work here is done.
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