RANDALL...RANDALL...AND DEAR TERI...
IT'S ERNIE & ANNIE GARFIELD... ACTUALLY IT'S ME..ANNIE SENDING THE LETTER...ERNIE IS ON THE COMPUTER ...BURIED AWAY UNDER STACKS OF BANKING PAPERS....I SHUTTER TO THINK WHAT I WOULD FIND IF I UNCOVERED HIM..HE'S PROBABLY COVERED WITH DUST AND THE GREEN STUFF...AND I DON'T MEAN LITTLE DOLLARS....THERE COULD BE A DIRECTOR AND A BANK PRESIDENT THERE FOR ALL I KNOW....AND POSSIBLY A MILDRED MAY PRAYER GARDEN MEETING GOING ON....
WE'RE STOPPING BY TO GIVE YOU A BIG KOFFEE-KLASS AND OK CORRAL BIBLE STUDY HUG.....(ERNIE SAID HE WOULD EVEN GIVE YOU A HUG)...REMEMBER THAT.....ALL THOSE PEOPLE JUST HUGGIN' AWAY...JUST COULDN'T GET AWAY FROM SOME OF THEM....THEY WOULD JUST GIVE YOU HUGS THAT A PRO WRESLER WOULD ENVY...
WHEN TERI READS THIS LETTER TO YOU....JUST THINK OF US AS BEING THERE WITH YOU.
RANDALL...SO MANY PRAYERS ARE GOING HEAVENWARD FOR YOU...THEY WON'T FAIL....
THAT SWEET OLD BAPTIST SONG I GREW UP WITH COMES TO MIND.....I CAN'T GET AWAY FROM MY BAPTIST UPBRINGING..."THRU MANY DANGERS, TOILS & SNAIRS I HAVE ALREADY COME....OOO THAT AMAZING GRACE...HOW SWEET IT IS...AND THAT EVERLASTING ARM WE HAVE TO LEAN ON....
AREN'T WE BLESSED THAT THROUGH OUR LORD JESUS WE HAVE BEEN ADOPTED AND CAN SHARE ALL THE BLESSINGS THAT ARE PROMISED US.
FROM OUR HEARTS TO YOURS AND FOR THE TWENTY-FIVE + YEARS WE HAVE BEEN FRIENDS....
REMEMBER THE BEGINNING WHEN DR. B. ASKED ERNIE IF HE NEEDED A BOOKEEPER...WAS THAT THE YEAR WE WERE AUDITED BY THE IRS TWICE....ANYWAY...ERNIE ENCOURAGED YOU TO PURSUE YOUR ARTIST CALLING AND LOOK WHAT YOU HAVE ACCOMPLISHED....WE ARE SO PROUD OF YOU....BUT, DEAREST RANDALL...MY ADVICE FROM NOW ON WHEN YOU REACH FOR THE STARS...PLEASE KEEP BOTH FEET ON THE GROUND...
OUR LOV & FRIENDSHIP FOREVER.....ERNIE & ANNIE
I SAY...LET THE LIGHT FROM THE LIGHHOUSE SHINE ON YOU....
.ERNIE & ANNIE
