In reply to Mercedes Brugh.

When I was talking about books and the people who brought them to me, your family was definitely included there. You did school readings and there were at-home reading up in the loft, by you and Jim, when I spent the night. Willow lent me so many books over the years I can't begin to count. I read all of her Chronicles of Narnia, and The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings Books, Tamara Pierce novels and one book that for some reason I've never heard of anywhere else but has always stuck with me, The Mozart Summer. It made me want to play the violin so badly, and I actually started taking violin lessons shortly before Peace Corps. :)