This is for Visa (Lowi)'s 150 Beautiful and Colourful prompts challenge on NGF
25th February 2012
colour: plum escape; missive; Molly & Female OC
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Aunt Pauline has always been someone to send missives – letters that are way too long for their purpose; often, Molly finds herself reading three pages about the colour of her aunt's new hat being wrong (plum is not the way that the fashion world is heading, as her designer apparently said) and wonders why on earth so much detail had to be added.
But, for her aunt, it's an escape from the reality that is loneliness: since her sister, Audrey, died, she's been alone. She's got no children, no husband, nobody to talk to her – but Molly. Molly is the only one who has listened to her as she's rambled on about things nobody cares about, not even Molly, because she's always felt guilty for having so much love when Aunt Pauline has none.
And so, no matter how long the letter is, Molly always writes a reply that's at least half the length of the received letter, if not longer, because she feels that she's doing her part for helping people by this…and if Aunt Pauline is happy, she's happy as well.
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Vicky xx