Dear John,
I wanted to let you know I took a Samstone with me to Maine this summer. I placed high up in a stone fire place, to one side where it looks out a window of the lodge over the ocean. It is a quiet, secluded lodge, near Boothbay harbor that I have been going to since I was five. My parents and my grand parents went there too. It may be sold soon and I loved the idea of the Samstone living there.
 
How has this year been for you. I would really love it if your family and mine could sit down and talk. Maybe over soup and popovers. I make great soup and popovers. Any chance we could do that?
Fondly, Michael Ann

(note Michael Ann's son Adam was killed in action in Iraq 2 years ago)