I trust your son is in good health. (That's a traditional Distant Lands greeting!)

Are you good at video games? I can't beat Area 9-15 of Devil Island 14. It's got platforms that disappear and too many turrets and IF you make it to the boss he shoots you with missiles and if he kills you, you have to go all the way back to the beginning! Arrrrrrrrrgh!! Mom heard me yelling at it and said if I wasn't having fun I should stop playing. Parents just don't understand video games!

That big bully Nate Goodman took my lunch money and tore up my copy of Hard-Boiled Frederick Gently and the Shirtless Bastard today. I hate him so much! Mr. Gallagher says if you ignore a bully, he'll lose interest. My dad says that's a crock of bullcrap (except he didn't say bullcrap, he said a bad word) and that the only way to deal with a bully is to smash his guts in. He's really big though! Maybe I should take some rod-fu lessons.

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