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  9 February, 2016

  Sweetheart,

  I’m depressed!

  (Hardly the most positive way to begin a letter……but it’s honest!)  I am confronted with a decision regarding Mr. Parkinson. It is 15 years ago that we were advised that he had taken up residence in my body. How he gained entry remains unknown. The same applies to the question of how to get rid of him. No one seems to know.

  Of course, you will remember that for most of those 15 years he was little more than a nuisance. But in the last few months he has changed from being a nuisance to acting more like the owner or landlord.

  The reason I feel depressed is that I don’t have anyone with whom I can discuss the implications of taking this next step. When you were with me, you brought to any discussion a lot of wisdom and practical advice and I am missing that right at this time. That doesn’t mean you were always right (!!). Just most of the time!

  All that to say I don’t have you here to discuss issues of significance!!

  It is unreasonable to expect other people to try and take the role you had at times like this. Things have reached the stage where I need to move up to the next level of treatment. The tablets that have largely controlled Mr. Parkinson over the years have largely lost their effectiveness.          

  I completed Part 2 of the sermon this last Sunday. Based on the story of Jonah I compared the differences between Jonah and Peter to the call of God on their lives.

  Actually I feel somewhat more positive now that I have been able to verbalise my uncertainties.

  I must away now because I have an appointment with Doctor Dan.

  But Until Then

  You remain the love of my life

  Mike