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August 1st, 1990
Dear Mr. Stark,
My name is Jasmine Potter. I’m 10 years old. Last year my twin sister Jemma and I had to write a letter to a family member for a class project. We don’t know anything about our father’s side of the family and our aunt doesn’t like to tell us about our mother. We do know that they were half sisters through our grandfather.
The point is we didn’t know much about our family and our teacher got us thinking about it. Maybe did have more family out there and we just don’t know about them. So we decided to start searching but the only lead we had was our grandfather’s name.
Jazzie likes to ramble. Basically we found out we’re related to you.
Ignore her. Jamie doesn’t know how to explain anything probably. So we went digging and found 2 marriage certificates. From there we were able to find our grandmother, one Gladis Evans nee’ Stark. A lot more digging and we found she was born in America and had a brother by the name of Howard.
We’re really lucky our local librarian loves us cause she was able to get several years worth of newspapers from America for us to comb through.
She is really amazing. Wish our school librarian was so nice. Anyways it took some time but eventually we were able to find out more about him and his family which led us to find you.
Did you know you’re everywhere? Especially after your display at the funeral. It made it really easy to find out a bit about you so thanks for that.
I’m so sorry she’s just very blunt. She doesn’t mean to be rude. But she’s right finding out about you was so much easier than everyone else we had to look up.
We could have done without seeing so much of you, though.
Anyways we’ve been wanting to write to you ever since we found out about you. We just couldn’t afford the postage. But we’ve been doing some odd jobs around town and selling some things Jamie has fixed up and thought we should write to you to let you know that even though you’re parents are gone you’re not alone. Not really.
Family is important to us and your part of ours, now that we’ve found you.
We’ll try to save up so we can write you again soon. But if it takes a while don’t worry too much. Jamie’s trying to build her own computer.
Its going to be amazing. I just need a few more parts and then my baby will be up and running! And once it is we can email you which will be much cheaper.
But until then know that we are so happy to know about you and we hope you might feel the same.
If you don’t, too bad. We’re gonna keep bothering you anyways.
Sincerely,
Jemma Dahlia Potter
&
Jasmine Potter
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December 20th, 1990
Dear Mr. Stark,
We haven’t forgotten about you. Thanks for trying to send us postage. Unfortunately American stamps don’t work here in England.
Something about you yanks throwing away a lot of perfectly good tea.
You don’t even like tea. Not really.
I don’t. Coffee is much better.
Heathen.
Prude.
(Intelligible scribbles and a taped up tear. It appears as if they were fighting over the page.)
Anyways we just wanted to wish you a Happy Christmas. We even made you a gift. Well Jamie mostly made it.
Don’t let Jazzie fool you. She’s the one who found everything so we could make.
It’s not much just some melted down wires that we couldn’t use and one of Aunt Petunia’s old necklace chains that broke a while back.
She was the one to repair the chain and melt down the wires. She even made the mold by herself. I barely did anything. Just inscribed it.
She’s trying to down play her part. But anyways let me tell you a bit more about it. Each symbol has a special meaning. We’re not entirely sure what all of them mean but it was a design taken directly from our mother’s journal. She said it would protect us and ever since we made our own things have decidedly gotten better for us.
Yeah Dudley hasn’t been able to get a solid hit in for months. He’s our pig of a cousin. I’m serious. Put some ears and curly tail on him and you couldn’t tell him from a real one.
He does look like a pig in a wig.
Between Dudley being a pig, Uncle Vernon looking like a walrus with his mustache, and Aunt Petunia having a horse face we almost feel like we live at the zoo. What animal do you look like? We think we look like fawns. All small and spindly but over all adorable.
Well we got off topic quite a bit. We really hope you like the gift. You’re actually the first person we’ve told about our mum’s journal. It and one from our dad just showed up on our 7th birthday. No idea where they came from and Aunt Petunia said everything of theirs was thrown away a long time ago.
We think it’s some type of magic. It wanted us to have a bit of our parents to prove they were real and more then aunt Petunia says they were. Just know that this is really something special to us. And we hope it’s special for you too.
HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!!!
Happy Christmas!
Sincerely,
Jemma
&
Jasmine Potter
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May 29th, 1991
Dear Mr. Stark,
Happy Birthday!
Congratulations on turning 21!
We’re sorry this is going to be late but between trying to figure out what to give you and then actually pulling everything together to get it done took longer then we were expecting.
Jamie drew this. She’s could be such an amazing artist if she wasn’t so into science. We found several different pictures of them all in some of the newspapers we went through and Jamie put them all together like this for you.
She’s not sure why you’re Butler and his wife needed to be in there but she felt like they should be, and I trust her feelings.
I can’t explain it but sometimes it feels like I know these things that I shouldn’t know. Mostly it’s science stuff. A certain advancement that is going to come out, or which scientists is going to be featured in the journals this month.
I don’t know why it happens to me but I’ve yet to have a impression that is wrong. If I was wrong here I am incredibly sorry and you can feel free to get rid of it. It’s just... I can... when I saw the photos of you with them it’s like seeing a movie clip rather than a photo. I new more of the story then what the picture showed.
I hope this doesn’t make you think I’m crazy or anything. And I hope you’ll keep reading our letter.
It really makes Jazzie happy.
And she deserves to be happy.
So do you for that matter.
So Happy Birthday! Again.
Best wishes on your day!
Jemma
&
Jasmine
Potter