<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;"><div>Dearest Merta Lou</div><div><br></div><div>This is your Great Aunt Clara in England. I am so sorry you have been imprisoned, I underwent a similar indignity recently, only instead of messing up my perfect tummy, they, they, they STOLE some of my beautiful teeth!</div><div><br></div><div>We are suffragettes my dear, unfairly imprisoned for fighting for the rights of basset ladies everywhere to eat whatever we want, wherever we find it. I tried to eat a child once, you know. It just a tiny nibble to see what the annoying little <span>ear-puller tasted like. For that, I was cast out of my life as a princess and sent to live with a dog who claims to be a basset, but has the hair of an Afghan, and my present slave, who is serviceable, but really doesn't understand how to wait on me hand and foot the way I expect (despite years of training).</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Stay strong dearest. You will be released. But a word from the wise - don't hang around waiting for a boy dog to free you. We lady bassets must always be able to stand on our own four paws.</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Stay stong</span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Clara, with Rolph and Sally, UK</span></div><div><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></span></span></div><div><span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><br></span></span></div></div></body></html>