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Phyllis's arrival in Ong's Hat
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Barbarellany
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 		Phyllis's arrival in Ong's Hat
Sometimes you hit on a good question that puts many things into perspective.The Sptagues and the Willinghams seemed to have been "called" to town at the sametime. I think for Meaghan's birth. She's more important than we previously thought.

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Dear Barbara,
It is so nice to find a question I know how to answer instead of being confounded by yet more mysteries and confusion. Douglas and I arrived here in October of 1999 when the town was still called Ong's Hat. We rented a dreary place outside of the town proper while we were looking for a house to buy. It was on one of our house-hunting drive-abouts, that I first saw Dale and Diana unloading their moving van. Knowing they were new in town, like ourselves, is what prompted me to introduce myself and
include them in the circle of acquaintances I tried to build.

Diana was, as they say, huge with child, and very radiant. I initially ingratiated myself by helping her unload books from boxes. Never having been blessed with children myself and not knowing anyone previously who was pregnant, I found Diana's condition quite fascinating. At our Christmas party that year, we were all rather expecting her to provide a surprise present. Then, there were jokes around town about whether the baby would be born on the stroke of midnight on New Year's and make the papers in Burlington. Instead, Meaghan delayed her arrival in the world until a week later,avoiding such tacky publicity. I was quite shocked when Dale told us how close Diana had come to dying during the childbirth. When I visited her in the hospital the day after, she looked robust; one would never have guessed that she had lost so much blood.

The first time I saw Meaghan she was behind the glass in the maternity ward's viewing room. Such an impossibly tiny, red-faced creature she was, her faced all contorted with pitiful mewling. I don't mean to suggest she was in any more distress than the other babies beside her. It was just a revelation to me that we all startlife so small and helpless and horribly needy.

When I paid my first visit to mother and child at home, Meaghan was quite happy in her mother's arms. She had no interest in the silver spoon (from Tiffany's, of course) I brought in offering to her wee self. This confirmed for me that an appreciation for the finer things is acquired and not inherent. Diana explained that babies don't really see very well and are more concerned with immediate nourishment. Months later, Meaghan did indeed show her appreciation by claiming that spoon as her favorite teething toy, gnawing and drooling upon it. I admit that I retreated somewhat from my budding friendship with Diana for months after the birth. All those diaper smells and the puking, drooling mess of it all, the demanding cries for attention – it quite convinced me that I was very lucky indeed to have never had children. It's so bittersweet to think of those times. Meaghan was really just becoming interesting, just beginning to be able to carry on a meaningful conversation when her life was cut short.

I'm feeling tired again and now I think I hear Iris. I need to talk to her.

Fondly,
Phyllis






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Sunny du Pree
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 		Re: Phyllis's arrival in Ong's Hat
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Dear Barbara,
When I paid my first visit to mother and child at home, Meaghan was quite happy in her mother's arms. She had no interest in the silver spoon (from Tiffany's, of course) I brought in offering to her wee self. This confirmed for me that an appreciation for the finer things is acquired and not inherent. Diana explained that babies don't really see very well and are more concerned with immediate nourishment. Months later, Meaghan did indeed show her appreciation by claiming that spoon as her favorite teething toy, gnawing and drooling upon it.

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It has been said that a person with lots of money, fortune and good breeding is born with a silver spoon in their mouth. I wonder if this may be foreshadowing of the birthright of Meghan...as far as her "bloodline" is concerned
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Barbarellany
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 		I thought about the same thing, but I have bought silver spoons as baby gifts in effect saying " may your table always be rich".
In this game though I think you may be right.

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phensley
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 		Dear Pam,
You may recall my telling you Diana was pregnant when they moved here. She and Dale were looking for the proverbial little house with a white picket fence in which to raise their child. It wasn't because of employment; Dale was still in partnership with Bruce Abbott at the time and doing very well for himself. Diana, particularly, was looking for a small community where she could make a difference in the quality of everyone's lives. She was very active at the Library and in other civic projects like the park that was named for her.

With one thing and another – today being, yet again, a monstrous
assault on my well-being – I haven't seen Agatha since the funeral. And so long as the media is camped on the street I don't see myself going out just for a visit. And who would want to run that gauntlet to visit me here?

Iris has been a bit stressed the last couple of days and who can blame
her? She was very upset by the news we got yesterday and its effects on me. She told me she had gone through quite a bit of back and forth with some of you. She sincerely felt Dale's story about Douglas' murder should have been kept from me. It was a terrible shock and the after-effects are still morbidly looping through my brain. But, I told her, it's important for me to know such things and deal with them. Today she was put through the wringer by state and federal investigators. To top it off, the poor girl has not been sleeping well. Her visions have changed and become more intense. It makes me think of the threat the spokesman for the Seven made against her. She had her gift under control and now that it is intensifying she is struggling to rein it in again.

Chris and I have been forging a friendship from the furnace of our
trials together. And I cannot say enough about what it means to have James and his gun in the household. We all get on so well and it's like a little dinner party every night. I really don't want to think about what my life will be like when they are gone.

Fondly,
Phyllis

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