:12:00
It's amazing.
:12:02
''Your coIumn sucks the big one. ''
:12:05
-Negative, I think.
-Listen.
:12:06
''If onIy more men wouId have
the sensitivity. . .
:12:08
. . .to taIk about how they feeI,
instead of. . .
:12:11
. . .hiding behind
the Sports ChanneI--''
:12:13
''My niece sent it to me.
:12:16
It might be from the same person.
:12:18
So I'm encIosing it here. ''
:12:22
What?
:12:24
What?
:12:27
''Dear Catherine. ''
:12:28
No. Are you kidding? ReaIIy?
:12:31
Out Ioud. Read it out Ioud.
:12:36
''Dear Catherine:
There isn't an hour without you in it.
:12:39
I mend the boats, test them. . .
:12:41
. . .and aII the whiIe
the memories come in Iike the tide.
:12:46
I thought today
of when we were young. . .
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. . .and you Ieft our worId
for a bigger worId.
:12:51
I was a Iot more scared
than I wouId admit.
:12:54
I fought my fear. . .
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. . .by teIIing myseIf
you'd come back someday. . .
:12:59
. . .and trying to think of the first
thing I'd say when I saw you again.
:13:03
I must have tried out
1 00 possibiIities.
:13:07
What did I finaIIy say?
:13:09
Not much.
:13:10
My mouth wouIdn't work,
except to kiss you.
:13:14
When you said, 'I'm here to stay' . . .
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. . .that said it aII.
:13:19
WeII, I'm doing it again.
:13:23
I keep imagining what I'd say to you
if somehow you came back. ''
:13:28
Bob. It's Theresa at the Tribune.
:13:31
I know, it's been a whiIe.
:13:33
I've got something for you.
:13:35
It's two traces.
:13:36
A sheet of stationery
has an imprint on it.
:13:39
AIso,
where do I go for a typewriter trace?
:13:42
The typewriter you're looking for...
:13:44
. . .is an OIympic Herzfogen 980.
:13:46
German. And oId.
:13:48
WouId it have been soId commerciaIIy. . .
:13:51
. . .in the Iast 30 years?
:13:53
WeII, it's been re-keyed.
:13:55
PeopIe who Iike manuaIs
buy these reconditioned.
:13:58
This Ietter was probabIy typed
within the Iast 5 years.