Dear Nanny McPhee,
I do not have your address and father could not find it so I hope it is you reading this and not someone else, in which case, it is very rude to read some one else's letter. You should probably stop.
Anyway, when you first came to stay with me and my siblings you told us this:
"When we need you but do not want you
then you will stay.
When we want you but no longer need you,
you will have to go."
You were right, it is rather sad. I have to ask you now to go against that.
You see, on the twenty-third of August, I am getting married and I both want and need you there.
I could demand you come but we both know I am a little too old for that, so instead I have created a list of reasons for you to attend the ceremony. The list is as follows.
Aggy is now seventeen years old and I would think you would quite like to see how she has grown. She is beautiful.
Chrissy is making the cake and she has a gift for baking.
It has been sixteen years now. We have two younger siblings that you have never met. Thomas and Hope, Hope being elder. I will tell you nothing more about them in the hope of enticing you to attend.
Evangeline is going to have another baby soon. She is positively glowing.
Father would love to see you again, so would Evangeline and all of the others.
If you do attend, I promise to keep Aunt Adelaide away from you
I am the first Brown child to marry. I know Torra and Lilly and Eric will too soon, probably, but I am the first. I am scared Nanny McPhee. What if I get it wrong?
The wedding is at half past two in the afternoon on the twenty-third of August but I would very much like it if you would arrive on the morning before hand, on the twenty-second, so you have time to settle in and for the others to see you and greet you again. You can meet everyone attending the wedding also.
Please, Nanny McPhee, I need you one last time.
Yours,
Simon Brown.
