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    • A Story Told in Letters
    • Introduction >
      • AQ: "Have I been busy"
      • JQ: "Orchid leis"
      • LQ: "Go crazy, kid"
      • Wally: "Don't change"
      • RQ: "Damn nice of you"
      • Mom: "A grand success"
      • Mom: "My 'fashion plate'"
      • LQ: "Who'd 've understood?"
      • JQ: "The sexy bastard"
      • Mom: "That 'gleam and glow'"
      • Mom: "So proud of you"
      • AQ: "Poor guy/Fast Casanova"
      • LQ: "Free coaching"
      • Mom: "Simply heartbroken"
      • AQ: "Most scandalous"
      • LQ: "Men!!"
      • JQ: "Gush it up"
      • Mom: "Keep it to yourselves"
      • LQ: "Bitter today"
      • LQ: "Your future brother-in-law"
      • LQ: "To the convent"
      • Dad: "A definite idea"
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Introduction


 “Their children had more modern minds and manners....young ladies of nineteen and twenty, who had brought from school...all the usual stock of accomplishments, and were now like thousands of other young ladies, living to be fashionable, happy, and merry. Their dress had every advantage, their faces were rather pretty, their spirits extremely good, their manner unembarrassed and pleasant; they were of consequence at home, and favourites abroad.”

                                                                                                       -- Jane Austen, Persuasion
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Twin Oaks, Washington, D.C., residence of Chinese Ambassador, c. 1952
Left to right from center: Ron, Jeannette, Lil (back turned), Al (with cigarette) 
1st Letter