My beautiful Byron,

Monday in Southern California finds me writing from a coffee shop looking out on a rather grey and chilly pacific.
Later on I am expecting your ‘great-uncle’ Elias and family to visit. They are in LA because other great uncle Lazaros is in hospice, and they are with him every day.

Last night I drove to Thousand Oaks, a town north of Los Angeles, to meet with my  ‘god-sister’ Kira. (Pictured with this giant chocolate egg.)
Kira has spent the past 6 weeks driving through America with 5 guys in an RV. (recreational vehicle). Including two cameramen, with super dooper high resolution camera’s and a sound guy. They are doing a movie for National geographic  about rattlesnakes. Every day they went to a different location in the American South, where they filmed rattlesnakes and stories about rattlesnakes. Kira is the director and producer with a strong social conscience. This week she flies back to South Africa and will spend many months editing all that film into a movie and it will be shown on National Geographic. Then people will know a lot more about rattlesnakes.

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The last letter you sent me. In 2016. When we had hoped to spend summer together before – well – Amlot, Adler and O’Leary.

My reply after you last letter. For summer holiday 2016. But I guess you never received it by post. Because for 9 Months Adler/Amlot/O’Leary (British family-law) never provided me with your address. I did ask you know. But the way it works in family law is – it took 9 months to tell me. Obviously, you know by now, that visit never happened.