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To: Neeka who wrote (105613)	8/4/2005 1:58:40 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 225578

I just wish I had the words to really describe yesterday....What an amazing day. She doesn't just have a few pieces...she has thousands of pieces!! Many of them are small, and ALL of them are grouped together in the most interesting ways. As an example: One tiny thing she showed me...a very small piece from about 1820's....it was a ladies friendship book...about half the size of a post card, with two accordion type papers inside, filled with a beautiful letter, and a poem, dated, and signed...a friend to a friend who was leaving and going "west" (probably from MA to CT, or maybe to OH.... The writing itself was just perfect, and the words made me get teary eyed. The outside "case" was embossed, and hand colored flowers were decorating it. I had never seen one of these before. And as you know, we have been antique hounds for years. Her whole house is filled with treasures like this. And then the outside....just simply like visiting like what we can imagine might have been a Victorian garden that children and adults as well, would love. Her place is only about 30 minutes or so from here (depending on traffic)...and I'm sure that I'll be there many times in the future...She will be here in a couple of weeks.. And you're right. Genealogy has so much enhanced my life, and in so many ways. You not only have the opportunity to learn about those who have gone before, BUT you have the opportunity to learn from so many more people who are contemporaries in the here and now.