Dear Lily,

Thank you for your latest letter. I’m so lucky to have you. Your kind words and curiosity is what’s keeping me going and in place. If I didn’t have your letters with all those questions, I’d have a hard time remembering what I was even writing about. So here is the rest of the story of my last night with your beautiful Aunt Kate that you were asking about.

When she told me to swear on our sister Mary’s soul, Kate's words swallowed my heart completely and I think it stopped beating for a few seconds. 

I remember that my eyes welled, I hated when she made me do that, swear on someone’s soul. I didn’t want to swear on Mary’s soul, but I did. “Okay, I swear. I’m going to...

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