Author - Rennes (from )
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Dear Shmi,

I have sent Watto the compensation for your absence, as well as a little extra because I daresay he'll feel cheated either way. This ought to keep him happy for now; I'm not going to bow to his demands in the future if he tries to scare us into paying more. It's more important to me that Rhun gets a good education.

I have spoken to Owen about taking over the family farm. He seems tentatively open to the prospect. He's a bit nervous I think, since he knows that the life of a moisture farmer is far from easy, but he has agreed to start working on it. I think that with time he will cultivate a love for the land as is tradition in our family. Funny that you should mention Beru...her family has been living on Tatooine for as long as ours has, and Owen has known her since they were both young. I've met her mother before while on errands in the village, and I think she would be more than happy for us to get together and arrange a marriage for the two of them. Beru seems like a responsible, hardworking girl, so perhaps if she were willing to work alongside Owen on the family farm, then he would be even more receptive to that future.

In any case, Rhun is the more secretive of the two. He often stays late at the academy and goes out to study on weekends, but I don't have any solid evidence that he has met a girl there. I think he will tell us if he feels a relationship is serious. Probably, since he knows that his job will take him traveling and possibly even permanently abroad, he doesn't wish to attach himself to any girl on Tatooine.

This Dooku fellow seems to have dropped off the rader for a while now, hasn't he? While I hope this means that he is satisfied in his new position away from the Republic,I'm fairly certain that there is more brewing beneath the surface. All secessions fail. As you said, I think that we would have gotten news if the Federation had made any aggressive moves. The Jedi are only peace keepers; I hope that the Republic is developing some sort of army in the case that there was an attack.
It's time for me to run some errands, Shmi. I'll leave you now.

Your Husband,

Cliegg