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[[left margin]] Will get in around Sat midnight (If I get a ride to Portland) or around 5 Sun am. [[/left margin]]

The address labels on the 4 boxes were removed here (by me) & discarded - but I did manage to retrieve 2 of the 4 from the fireplace ashes:

D607342
D693471

I did not address any of the films to Monhegan - They were all addressed to NYC

Don't worry - eventually [[strikethrough]] they [[/strikethrough]] all the boxes will arrive in the mail.

Spent yesterday (in the fog) pulling up thistles in the raspberry patch. They were 5 feet high and with spent seed pods. Then afterwards I read your books on wildflowers & was dismayed to learn that said thistles are biennials & not perennials - so the effort was wasted. Elena's garden is green with choice, tender lettuce, and there were some huge fat icicle radishes (which I [[strikethrough]] cooked [[/strikethrough]] boiled.) Arline's garden supplies me with basil (& lettuce) [[strikethrough]] If you're [[/strikethrough]] (She wanted to know if the Wongs ever received her Cinderella - did they? They never wrote her).

Ask Aiko to [[strikethrough]] keep [[/strikethrough]] find out whether there'll be any rock shows in Oct. I'd like very much to attend & don't want the date to run into the Gussows' week-end date which is I think Oct 9 - would have to be changed, if.