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Date: 9/22/05
Time: 6:22 a.m.
Subject Line: When�s the party, Mr. Frodo?
Mr. Frodo, happy birthday! It�s your Sam! I know it�s kinda daft and impersonal to be writin� you an e-mail greeting fer yer birthday an� all. There�re reasons fer it tho. I explained better to Mr. Bilbo� his e-mail is still [email protected], right? Hope so!
I�m still a bit muddled up with all this new confounded stuff. But it�s been such a WONDERFUL thing to get to chat wit� ye so much!! Oh Mr. Frodo, how I ached the day you�d gone! But then here was Strider (he hits me if I call him anythin� but that, total daft bugger he is) with Miss Arwen, all yakkin� about the new stuff that Gondor got. I almost didn�t buy their idea, until they�d said the Grey Havens had gotten their OWN online stuff too!! They�re workin� on getting� tellyphones in, and Miss Arwen SWEARS by this stuff they call �soap operas�. Aragorn didn�t look all that happy wit� it, but then again he was never fond of soap (much to our dismay, havin� to be plastered to the man after ridin� an� sweatin�� ah, dear). Miz Lobelia�s been buggin� me after what I been doin� on that dratted contraption as she calls it. To think I�ve only had it fer a week now and she�d been by nearly everyday since she saw the cow printed box comin� in.
It�s a bit odd, but, lovely all the same!! I adored bein� able to chat wit� ye the other night. Is it really that warm out there right now? Good gravy, it�s been chilled to the bone in the Shire!! So cold and dreary lately. Yer gardens look so sad, but I made sure to be cuttin� a good lot of them before they all wilted and died out. I�ve pressed them and put them in a special book, like the one you�d given me. Only this book ain�t fer me.
Hmm.
I have to cut this short, since I�ve got a trip at hand as I type. In fact, I�m not even at Bag End right now.
And I ain�t going back there neither.
I know it�s the hobbit custom for givin� presents, but� can you stand up and look out your window and watch for the ship comin� in? You�d tole� me you can see the shores from where ye are. Are there any ships yet? Last night you�d told me you wouldn�t be able to chat wit� me until yer birthday night. That�s when the next and last ship to the Grey Havens is going to arrive, or so I�ve been told.
Happy Birthday, m�love. Run out to greet me now, if ye please.
Love,
~Your Sam
