Wednesday, May 30, 2012

First 10 sentences of vignettes

        The best memories were those with my family. Like the old fishing trips, crossword puzzles, and holidays that brought us all closer together. I am now eighty years old and have had my share of memories.
          I began writing letters to my wife since marriage counseling before I married her when we were young, and am writing one now. It seems that you would run out of new things to say to your spouse, but I don’t. I have written her a letter for every holiday, birthday, after every fight, and just when I want to make her smile. By going back through them, I have noticed they have gotten better every time that I wrote one. So far, there are 201 letters, each exceeding 3 pages long.
“Tom, it’s time for your medicine,” my wife announces as I hurry and write at the bottom: ‘You know I love you to the moon and back, Shirley. Love, Tom” and slipped it under the bills. I really dislike taking my medicine; I have to take it every day and multiple times a day.

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