THE FEMININE VIEWPOINT

by and about women

2:2

The Stranger

by

J. Lorna Strayer

It was a simple Christmas greeting signed Dot, Bill and Children. For a moment Mary looked at the card without comprehension, then sucked in her breath quickly as she identified the sender. The writing was the same minute and careful. On the one side, written along the bottom were the words, 'Mary, please write,' with please underlined.

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