Alice Is Amazing!

Hello!! So I grew up reading the Alice books and I absolutely LOVE them! they are so amazing! Great Job! I love how you ended the series! even though I was kind of sad it was the end, it was a good happy ending. A lot of people think the age of 60 is the end of your life but really it’s just a new beginning and Alice was really entering a new adventure. I absolutely cried when they found the time capsule and it made my heart melt to look back and think as if they were real people and say “Who knew they would make it here?”. I have to be honest with you and say I was so happy and in tears of joy when I saw that Alice and Patrick finally got married and lived their happily ever after, were you? I love the idea of childhood sweethearts getting married and growing old together, don’t you? I also love that Alice always was interested in traveling and Patrick made her dream come true and they’re traveling around the world together! I love how you’re very realistic even when reality hurts, but can I ask you do you think that time really does heal all wounds and that no matter what we’ll all be okay? sorry if I’m rambling I just really think the world of you! I hope you are in good health and are living a very exciting life you beautiful woman! 🙂

Wow!  I’d better look in the mirror again.  But I do still have my own teeth!  I wish that I could promise that all of us are going to come through this pandemic OK and that time heals ALL wounds–that nothing bad will ever happen to any of us.  But of course I can’t promise that.  What I can tell you is that the way we react to things has  a lot to do with whether we “ever get over it.”  If we see the girl at school who bullies everybody as someone is most probably very insecure inside, and is possibly slapped around and denigrated at home, her insults don’t seem quite so cutting.   If we turn our embarrassments into  funny stories to tell our friends, we don’t keep reliving them in secret over and over again.  If you think you’re not pretty enough to attract a husband, look around you!  You will be amazed to discover happily married couples where the husband is movie-star handsome and the wife quite plain.  People marry people who make them comfortable and happy.   Yes, I am a widow now, but I have many friends around me and my sons are doing well.  Yes, I still remember sadly the eight years I was married to a brilliant man who, after three years, became mentally ill and ended up in a mental hospital.  I am still very sad when I think about him and all he could have contributed to the world. But I eventually married again, had two boys and had a very wonderful, ordinary/extraordinary life.