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Case story from New York (1954): after a quarrel, a grandmother was ordered out of her son's home by her daughter-in-law, and for two years her gifts to her grandson went unacknowledged. Hearing of revision, she mentally wrote herself two letters, one from her daughter-in-law and one from her grandson, held them in imaginary hands and read them each night until they woke joy in her, falling asleep in the feeling. On the eighth morning an envelope arrived holding two letters identical with the ones she had imagined.

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The grandmother is no longer locked out from the home she loved, but she is in communion
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Two years before, after a violent quarrel, she was ordered out of her son’s home by her daughter-in-law.
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On the morning of the eighth day she received the letter. On the inside there were two letters--one from her grandson and one from her daughter-in-law.
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They wondered what joy life would hold for any of us if we had to write our own letters
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so she sat down that night and mentally wrote herself two letters--one from her daughter-in-law, expressing a great kindness for her
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she went home determined that she would really apply what she had heard over the years, and this is what she did
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As she retired at night, she mentally constructed two letters, one she imagined coming from her grandson, and the other from her daughter-in-law.
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