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The older my granddaughters get, the more fun they are.

I just got back from a week in Los Angeles, during which time I got to hang around and watch a typical week unfold in the lives of my son Britt and his family.

His daughters Katie and Kelsey are 10, school was in session, and both girls are involved in after-school sports. The week was a complex choreography of events, bewildering to me, normal for the rest of them.

I say the girls are increasingly fun to be around because they’re becoming more mature and more literate, and their sense of humor is more sophisticated. This year, they appreciate things that went over their heads a year ago.

That being the case, I sent them the following email after I got home…

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Deer Katee and Kelcie,

This is your frind Paco. How are thengs in Californya?

Rocky is bizzy rite now. He askd me to rite you an emale, to tell yu how much he enjoyd seeing yu both last weak.

Akshully, he is just bizzy taking a nap, but yu did not heer that from me!

When he came to git me from the kinnel, yu were all he talkd about. It was Katee this and Kelcie that, swiming this and runing that. He talkd like yu are reddy for the Olimpix.

Personuly, I think he was exajerating. Yu are 10 yeerz old like me. Yu still have sum growing to du, but it soundz like yu are reely good athleets.

Speeking of exajerating, is it tru that yu have a hunderd Barbeez and Kenz in yur house?

And why duz Kenz head come off but Barbeez duz not?

O, I almost fergot — Rocky sez yu have catz! Tu of them! He sed they are namd Peper and Violent. Why did yu name her Violent? Iz she danjerus?

I luv catz. We have lotz of them on our strete. Fonzie and Sissy next dore are my frinz. They are not skeered of me. They no I will not hert them. But they fite with eech other all the time. Yu can heer them in the woodz fiteing.

Rocky sed he missez yu a lot, and he wants to vizit Californya agin to see yu. That meenz I will stay in the kinnel, but thats OK. It is an inneresting place if yu are a dog.

Well, tell yore parents hey frum us. Send Rocky an emale when yu can. I no he wood like to heer frum yu.

Also, tell Peper and Violent that I sed hey. Yu no how I luv catz.

Luv,

— Paco