dear aunt jackie by the way we loved your 2008 illinois times poem book I especially like ecopoem #6 my heart aches reading it as you know we lived near the dairy until I was 14 years old one of my most wonderful memories is of stephanie and my riding our bikes from our house on colley road to chez nous . . . feeling the spring sun on my face seeing the corn springing up from the fields on either side of the road and hearing and seeing a meadow lark flying into the air the land was so sparkly and joyous love, your niece jackie jo

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