p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: left;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Proxima Nova',sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"My dearest Aro,/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: left;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Proxima Nova',sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Decades have passed since the last time we spoke, centuries since we last saw each other. As we used to./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: left;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Proxima Nova',sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I could never bring myself to write after what happened in Volterra with my son and his, now, wife. I was relieved and ashamed. Relieved that Edward was still living and ashamed that I had failed him so fully that the death you could provide was a gentler fate than the life I could offer. I know you will say he was spared for his gift, but my heart hopes that some regard you may still hold for my person was what moved you to give your first rejection and spared me the pain of losing a firstborn./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: left;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Proxima Nova',sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"You have my gratitude for this!/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: left;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Proxima Nova',sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I am very pleased to announce that Isabella is now just like the rest of my family (as you can see). Unfortunately, her newborn rage has not yet faded and it is impossible to have her be near any humans without disastrous endings. Be assured, I have everything under control and I am exercising caution by not bringing her to you to get reacquainted. It has been some time since I have had a newborn in my care./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: left;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Proxima Nova',sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I pray you will keep me in your mercy and forgive the trespasses my children have accomplished. Youth, what a grace to lose!/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: left;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Proxima Nova',sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"How I have missed the mycenaean language! You are the only one I can share this pleasure with./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: left;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Proxima Nova',sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Your/span/p
p style="text-align: left;"span id="docs-internal-guid-ba3a4dee-7fff-8d85-694c-84e7e72d68cc"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Proxima Nova', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Carlisle/span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: left;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Proxima Nova',sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Decades have passed since the last time we spoke, centuries since we last saw each other. As we used to./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: left;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Proxima Nova',sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I could never bring myself to write after what happened in Volterra with my son and his, now, wife. I was relieved and ashamed. Relieved that Edward was still living and ashamed that I had failed him so fully that the death you could provide was a gentler fate than the life I could offer. I know you will say he was spared for his gift, but my heart hopes that some regard you may still hold for my person was what moved you to give your first rejection and spared me the pain of losing a firstborn./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: left;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Proxima Nova',sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"You have my gratitude for this!/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: left;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Proxima Nova',sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I am very pleased to announce that Isabella is now just like the rest of my family (as you can see). Unfortunately, her newborn rage has not yet faded and it is impossible to have her be near any humans without disastrous endings. Be assured, I have everything under control and I am exercising caution by not bringing her to you to get reacquainted. It has been some time since I have had a newborn in my care./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: left;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Proxima Nova',sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"I pray you will keep me in your mercy and forgive the trespasses my children have accomplished. Youth, what a grace to lose!/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: left;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Proxima Nova',sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"How I have missed the mycenaean language! You are the only one I can share this pleasure with./span/p
p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 10pt; text-align: left;"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Proxima Nova',sans-serif; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Your/span/p
p style="text-align: left;"span id="docs-internal-guid-ba3a4dee-7fff-8d85-694c-84e7e72d68cc"span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Proxima Nova', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"Carlisle/span/span/p