This item is a larger note card with an elegant "K" sculpted on the front surrounded by a wreath of ivy and birds.
Thanksgiving weekend, 1985
Dear Amanda:
This has been the hardest six months of my life, and I have been so grateful for your support and friendship! As you know, I pled guilty to Reckless Endangerment for my participation in removing the C-12 crystals from the Bethesda Ordnance Laboratory. Thanks to your testimony of my ignorance of Robert's scheme, I have been sentenced to 2 years of probation. It could have been so much worse!
It is humiliating to think of the many times I drove Robert to the airport for his "business" trips to Portland, when he was using that time to seduce and then kill his accomplice out there. It is Absolutely Mortifying to think that his "business" appointments locally included his seduction of that sour Mrs. Courtney. He said that I had the leadership skills to form the committee, but I wasn't "tough enough" to whip them into the right kind of action. Robert was behind Mrs. Courtney's angry protests that letters and petitions wouldn't be effective, her idea of a "secret vote" to choose a location to picket (carefully rigged to target the Lab), and the sudden shift in start time, which left you behind on the critical day.
I will be forever grateful that you caught up with the protestors, and followed us back to the laundry. Perhaps it was your presence that prevented Robert from simply shooting me. It was your phone call that summoned help, and it was your eyewitness testimony that kept me out of jail. I am indebted to you in so many ways.
In return, I offer you completely discreet and free cleaning and mending services. I expect that your part-time work with Mr. Stetson is hazardous to your clothing, and you need confidential work to salvage your wardrobe. Our seamstress is trustworthy and Dotty will never hear a word about it. As you know, Tri-County Laundry only handles corporate accounts, but I can make exceptions for this worthy cause. Please let me show my gratitude by bringing all of those work-related mishaps to me.
I hope you and yours have a Very Merry Christmas, and I fervently hope that the New Year will be much better than the old for all of us.
Thank you so much,
Jean
Author's Note: Thanks to RankAmateur for the suggestion!
