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My darling Peggy,
by the time you read this...
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I'll be in an urn
at Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
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So let me make it clear
from the very beginning...
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that notwithstanding
what I may say here and now...
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I loved you to the end
and with all my heart.
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Please don't think I was hasty.
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I was just like any other normal,
red-blooded American gopher...
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who works in a big city.
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Living underground
most of the time...
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naturally, I liked the idea
of a little fresh air.
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This is simply to explain to you...
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why, after last month...
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you never again
were able to suck me in...
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to another gay, happy,
carefree vacation...
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with the family
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may God bless and keep
each and every one of them...
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individually.
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Even now, there is no man alive...
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who believes more devoutly than I do...
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that the family is the rock...
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upon which civilization is built.
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But speaking to you now
from beyond the grave...
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let me say to you, frankly...
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that I had rather stay on
as a gopher...
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than be trapped with my family...
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for a whole month in the same house.
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I also agree heartily
with all modern authorities...
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that there is no more
sacred obligation in life...
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than a lasting communication
between parents and children.
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But from now on, I'm going to see
if I can't manage mine by long distance...
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and the longer, the better.
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It's not that I don't love them,
you understand.
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It's just that the day finally arrives when
a man simply hasn't got the strength...