Emma's Letters from Jerry
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Dear Emma, It was nice of you to visit me last year. People seem so nervous when they come, but you seemed quite at home and business-like. I think about you a lot, and about my life. I've been trying to get the courage up to talk to John. Last week Shirley came to see me, all of a twitter, trying to keep me quiet. Brought me a cake, she did, though I wasn't allowed to keep it. They worry what's in them, you know. Anyway, I am writing to John today and telling him I am his Dad. Trouble is, as I said to you, I think that Monty Hall is his granddad. I want to tell him that too, I mean there might be an inheritance or something, right? He should know his roots. When Elizabeth was pregnant with John, Monty called me into his office and said that I should leave the child be, that he would provide for him, and that he knew what it was to have an unacknowledged child. As he said it, it passed between us, almost like it was spoken aloud, that Elizabeth was his daughter! I don't know the details, but I know it's true. Shirley, of course, was having none of it. So I need you to do some research, find out the truth. I'll tell him who his father is, but, Emma, let me tell him about his grandfather too. Yours sincerely, |