Letter from Alexis Blackwell to her family, June 17, 2003

Dear Dad, Mom, Jamie, Curtis, and Tim,

Hello from Camp Fairmarsh!

I’m just going to start out by saying that I miss you all. Yes, even you, Jamie. But I am also loving it here. It is easier to breathe here, like Doctor Miller said it would be. The air is really clean! But I am still trying to take it easy, so that I don’t overexert myself. I’ve got eight weeks of breathing fresh air, and I don’t want to jeopardize that.

There are a lot of outdoorsy activities, but I’ve found a few indoors ones as well. There is a camp newspaper, so I’ve signed up to help with that. There are also plenty of crafts to do. And the best part is that the newspaper building and the craft building a...

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