Sunshine, I hope you’re doing something solid with your talent. Don’t let grass grow under your feet. Life is too short. I see it every day. Do what you love. Though I hated to leave you, I had to follow my heart and fight overseas as opposed to staying at home, pen-pushing, safe and close to you but, God forbid, a million miles from the action. As selfish as that might have been, it was what was best for my soul. So it must be with you. No regrets, Iris. Rather regret what you did, than what you didn’t do. I think somebody else said that more succinctly, but the message is the same. Do it, and bugger the consequences. Somehow, life works out as it should. Could she really get serious about an adventure in fashion? But she’d have to leave her mother, and Iris was all she had left. Iris sn

