Reply ID: 86fd
Date: 1-6-12, 10:10 pm

Dearest Niece Tori K,

Happy new year! Today I received your comments from my blog and I was quite surprised to hear from you! Thank you for writing! May God bless you and your family: Mama Debbie, Tavares, you and Bainy! Amen! Also, that your extended families be blessed. Uncle Robert, Leon, Aunt Lynette, Sheila, and my sister MeMe and all your cousins, as well as those I didn't mention! Amen!

Of course I know you! Debbie's daughter, Tori! I've met you and Tavares and Bainy when you all were little-bitty kids! Mama brought her babies to me to meet, and I never forgotten you all! :) Tell Mama I still love her and her family! I am doing fine! I've always spoken very good of your mother. She and I were boyfriend and girlfriend way back before you kids were ever born! Yes, she and I used to hang out before Uncle Robert and Aunt MeMe were ever boyfriend and girlfriend.

Enough said about that. Although Meme never forgot me, I never forgotten Mama either! I'm surprised she told you kids about me! :)

Tell Mama I'm sorry to have heard about your grandmother Ms. Jessie Mae dying! May God bless her dearly departed soul! Amen! My sister Freddie Mae told me about it when it happened!

Tori, life is strange because now you and your families are family by the marriage of Rober and Meme, and all your cousins by them! :) Although you, Tavares, and Bainy were already loved by me because I loved Mama sooo dearly!

Hopefully, we do get the chance to meet one day, now that you're old enough to know me personally! But we have already met! :) Mama made sure that I met her babies and I established love for you all (her babies) way back then! You all are my kids through the love of Mama!

If I had been out there, you all would had always known Daddy Battites would have been there for you all! So of course I know you! :)

Tori, tell Mama to drop me a line at Battites Wesley #64380, P.O. Box 9900 W.S.P.F., Boscobel, WI 53805-9900, and let her know—the only pictures I can receive are pictures that's on paper only. I cannot receive the real picture, so it has to be put on paper (photocopied/scanned on the computer, etc.) So only on paper. I'd love to see how you all look.

Bye for now. Give my love to everyone!

Your loving step-father by love and uncle by marriage!
[signature]