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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 size=2>It was a pleasure to help. You brought out
the Martha Stewart in me. And with people so genuine as you and your
husband, and having experienced all different kinds, you have given us a gift,
of being yourself! (not sucking up, just true!)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2>Alethea and Curn </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><B>-----Original Message-----</B><BR><B>From:
</B>Lael Portwood <<A
href="mailto:rlportwood@earthlink.net">rlportwood@earthlink.net</A>><BR><B>To:
</B><A href="mailto:ansteorra@Ansteorra.ORG">ansteorra@Ansteorra.ORG</A>
<<A
href="mailto:ansteorra@Ansteorra.ORG">ansteorra@Ansteorra.ORG</A>><BR><B>Date:
</B>Tuesday, June 15, 1999 8:23 PM<BR><B>Subject: </B>ANST - Thank
you!(Sorryit'slongandIpromiseIwon'tdoitagain.)<BR><BR></DIV></FONT>Vallust
and I would like to thank the following people for making our investiture
run so smoothly and so fun:
<P><U>Curnan and Alethea: </U> What a party! You outdid
yourselves. We couldn't have asked for more! <BR><U>Eleanor:</U>
Thanks so much for the hat (and what a hat it is!) and for all the support
and friendship. <BR><U>Tori: </U> Thanks for making my kids'
costumes. You can't begin to know how much burden that took off my
shoulders. You did a beautiful job! <BR><U>Boo:</U> Thanks for
all the phone calls and the candy. As always, you come through.
<BR><U>April and Egan: </U> Thanks for all the help with the party and
for helping us set up camp. Egan, wherever I was you were there
helping me. Thanks. <BR><U>Kayleigh:</U> Thanks for
pinch-hitting on our processional. You did a great job as always.
<BR><U>Thorfinn: </U> Thanks for the liquid "attitude
adjustments" for everyone. <BR><U>Selwyn and Laurie:</U> Thank
you for the breakfasts and the coffee each morning. Your friendship is
invaluable. <BR><U>Muriell and Pepin</U>: Thanks for the BIG banner
with my BIG dogs! It is truly awesome! I have unrolled it and
stared at it many a time since I got home. My hat is off to you and
your talent. <BR><U>James</U>: Thank you so much for padding the
coronets. You did a great job with so very little to work with.
<BR><U>Kaynin, Oriana, Jasper, and Dusty: </U> Thanks for all
your help. Your service was absolutely invaluable to us. We also
would like to thank you for the quivers. I am speechless. But I
have to tell you that when you first pulled them out of your bag I thought
you were giving us snake leggings. I guess being an avid hunter, these
kind of thoughts pop into my head now and again. <BR><U>Margaret
MacDuff:</U> Your artistic talent is amazing. Thank you for
doing all you did for us. <BR><U>Godfrey and Constance:</U> Your help
was so sorely needed. Thank you for being there and pitching in with
everything you did. And thank you for putting up with us.
Kuddos! <BR><U>Niccola:</U> Last but never least. Thanks for
everything you do and you do a helluva lot! You mean the world to us.
<BR>And thanks to the Shire of Adlersruhe and Wilkin and Ophelia.
Thanks for having us and doing such a great job! We really appreciate
it.
<P>I probably have left some of you out and I profusely apologize.
Thanks to you all and to the people that came to the event. I hope
everyone had a great time. Because of you all, we did.
<P>Always in Service to the Dream, the Kingdom, and the wonderful people of
this realm,
<P>Vallust and Ascelyn Balstene <BR>Baron and Baroness of Bonwicke
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