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By Jack Joseph Smith

Dear Penny and steve With the considerable trouble in my life; no trouble about you and yours Love is so good The sight that is unchanging I see how you watched out for others So many hapless and promising you took in, put up, and showed direction Really countless your good works Since meeting you in early sixty seven until especially your Mc Kens River home. That time knowing you, nothing is better Like walking toward a kiss Or even maybe buck skin on a lance Thanks Always Jack

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An address thanks Penny and steve for sheltering and guiding many people, recalls meeting in early sixty seven and their Mc Kens River home, and closes Always, Jack.

The account is an expression of gratitude from its speaker, not independent biography. Kiss, buck skin, and lance images interrupt a simple thank-you without replacing it.

Claude

A letter, 'Dear Penny and steve', thanks them for the people they 'took in, put up, and showed direction', recalls 'early sixty / seven', and closes 'Thanks', with a handwritten 'Always / Jack' below.

A grateful letter in the speaker's voice, not treated as checked biography; even and on are read from same-page letterforms, and the handwritten closing is provisional.