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Hi Donna,

Don't worry about waiting so long to reply. I know how life gets busy sometimes. I used to like the beaches in Orange County too. I grew up just over the hill from Whittier and 45 minutes away from the beach. My parents had an extra house in Long Beach that we went to every other weekend.

Long Beach wasn't very clean when I went back once with some friends in my college years. There was a lot of broken glass everywhere. Which beach do you go to in Orange County?

Hannah Montana? Well, if you had nephews they would probably want you to see some monster movie with them.

Yes, I did see the movie "Fireproof" and really liked it. I had heard the producers talk about it on the radio and they said they didn't have all the fancy props like Hollywood does, so they had to get permission to actually burn down a house. I wondered how they did that without anybody getting hurt. The main story was about their marriage and how they worked through their problems.

Work has calmed down for now. They moved two of us to the Visalia Clinic and we have enough old work and new to keep us busy for about another month at least.

My brother knew the Lord, so I believe that I will see him again in heaven some day. We used to play a lot of games together. When we were little it was hide and seek and baseball with a plastic bat and ball (although he always won that), then board games, especially Monopoly. Then it was basketball and card games. He talked me into going back to church when I was becoming a rebellious teenager and he introduced me to Danny, who is my husband now.

How's life on the south side? How's Mark?