A Conversation with Elizabeth
1998
Re: Cyber-Jubilation

Date:          Fri, 13 Mar 1998 10:05:08 -0800
To:            Elizabeth
Subject:       Re: Cyber-Jubilation
 
Actually I checked and it has been almost four weeks. I have been printing out the messages and it has made quite a stack. You're right, we have covered a lot of ground. I found it interesting that you thought I might be angry at you over the past for I thought the same about you. There probably is/was some anger there on my part but I believe it was more frustration and confusion. I have liked the spontaneity of our writings and have been somewhat surprised at your openness to "talk" about yourself and you past. It has changed my perception of you.
 
It sounds like your finals will be hell and I admire you for being able to do it. I don't believe I could, or more likely, would be willing to go though such a program.
 
I like having a mix of indoor and outdoor "hobbies" as well as ones to do alone and ones to do with others. It is too easy for me to be self centered and do everything alone so I have to work at doing things that involve others. Julie and I have always had some difficulty finding things to do together for our interests don't overlap a lot. She has always been a runner and I a bicyclist but last year I got her into bicycling and now she loves it. We also like to go hiking and now yoga together. With racquetball there is a group of about eight or ten guys at the club at my level and we usually book a couple of courts and play round Wendy (winner stays on and plays the next guy up). I hope my knees hold up for I wouldn't like to give up playing racquetball. A couple of years ago I did a real number on my right knee while playing. I could hardly walk for a couple of days and had to use a cane for a week. I couldn't play racquetball for about three weeks. A combination of using the leg machines at the club, bicycling and wearing a knee brace got it back in shape. Sometimes feel my knee giving a little so I now wear a knee brace off and on.
 
Oh the pleasures of getting older.
Larry

I printed out all the emails from Elizabeth and put them in a box on my desk. The box was the top of a ream of paper box and thus was open for Julie to read if she wanted. It was ok with me if Julie read them, although I don’t know if she ever did for she never once said anything about it.
 
I kept the box of email printouts for many years until one day I decided I had them all electronically and threw them away, something I regretted twenty years later as I found, after many years of computer storage media changes, I had lost many of the emails.  I had mostly saved emails I had received from Elizabeth but not the ones I had sent.
 
It was  in 2023, after another long lapse of communication, I again heard from Elizabeth, and I asked her if she had saved any of our emails. Much to my surprise, she had printed out both her and my emails and saved them all these years and she was happy to make a copy and send them to me.

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