Dear Matt,

     How is my granddaughter?  I know Aliyah’s walking now.  Is she talking yet?  What do you three like to do as a family?  Where do you take her to play, other kids’ houses, park? What are your favorite toys?  How many teeth does she have?  What are her favorite toys?  Is she a girly girl or a tomboy?  Dolls or trucks?  I guess these days it doesn’t matter.  I wish I could see her play, see her grow up.  All I have is pictures my friend, Pam, got off Facebook for me.  Aliyah looks like I did, small for her age, thin, and wirery, with blonde, blonde, blonde, blonde hair.  I was so worried she’d have my cleft lip/cleft palate birth defect, but she doesn’t.  She’s...

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