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Elizabeth Thomas and I were apart for a year. We exchanged letters at about two-month intervals just to keep in touch and maintain our friendship. As it turned out, we both harbored a spark of something more, and the correspondence increased to twice a week. To augment the dearth of news, I tried to please her with little fictional stories, which I cranked out about one per week. As time passed, the author became more bold until the content was not fit for general consumption.
Betty eventually returned to Alamogordo, New Mexico, and we were married. We had an idea to add the series of stories to Dream to Remember, which I’d been working on for several years and to which Betty had already contributed, but the content was too graphically private. There ensued two complete revisions and the eventual deletion of several episodes that failed to survive as discrete stories when censored. Finally, the content emerged innocuous enough that we wouldn’t be embarrassed if seen by someone else. Or, so we thought.
Abe was home for Christmas when I asked for help with the small amount of Spanish, included for color. That’s where “Okay puede ver, Señor.” came from. Anyway, Abe could not look at the text, on the computer screen, without perusing some of the yarn for context. He was aghast, “You didn't really write this to a lady !” He should have seen it before it was censored.
The monetary exchange rate had been 3,000 pesos to one U.S. dollar for many years. While this was being written, the peso was radically reevaluated to 3 to 1 — a factor of 1,000 ! Shortly thereafter, it was devalued again to 3,000 to 1. This series reflects the 3 to 1 rate, only in effect for a brief time.
Bill Franklin
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