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Originally posted by Gorbishun:

You could be on to something... But who (besides you that is) would take the time to do what you did? Do you think the letters from River might actually have something important on them (which would mean Joss wrote them with purpose, thinking someone as crazy as you would come along and try to read them), or are they just meaningless props that needed some writing on them.

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Dearest Mother and Father.

I hope you both are well and feel fine… I am doing well in school. My teachers and professors all say that it is so… Some days I love it more than I thought I would.

My thoughts often wander to the grand time we had last summer at the lake. I… and swimming in the lake, the deep blue… made the summer days melt away.

We all had such a good time…”

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"Dearest mother and father,
I hope you both are well and doing fine. {Things are great. I am home. .. a little} ... I am doing well in school. My teachers and professors all say that it is so. I do love {...} the {...} surroundings of home. {And} .. a lot more than I thought I would.
My thoughts often wander to the grand time we had last summer at the lake. I was {playing} and swimming in the lake, the deep blue {crystal} ... waters just made those summer days melt away.
We had ... and a good time swimming and {...} and {...}."

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Originally posted by Cabot:

Okay my first post on the forums although I've been lurking now for a while. This item just broke down my resistance. First I'd like to say I'm impressed with what you were able to glean from the screencap of the letter. I would never had tried to tackle it if not for the head start you provided.

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Originally posted by Simylee:

I might be a little silly and not reading the posts how they are meant to be, be you folks are decoding the letters from the series. Right? Well, in Serenity, the book for the movie, it shows has Simon decoding them, how he is decodes them, and what they say. But, if you folks are trying to do something entirely different, I am sorry.

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Originally posted by squish:

I believe SIMYLEE is referring to the novelization of the movie by Keith DeCandido. It has a bit about Simon cracking River's "code" in the letters (mainly the scene from Safe, but a bit of further exposition about how he found the code). It doesn't really add any information about the content of the letters. And, you have to be a bit careful about the novel. It is not canon, meaning that Joss has said that he didn't contribute to it nor did he approve it.

RE: your interpretation of River's letter, where she writes "the deep blue, crystal-clear waters just made those summer days melt away" could it be that she's saying that the "deep blue, crystal-clear waters" of Blue Sun have essentially melted away her childhood (i.e. destroyed it essentially)?? Just a thought I had.

squish

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Originally posted by Simylee:

I think I see what you're trying to do now though, but I felt I would come out of my shell and lend a piece of info.

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Originally posted by nuclearday:

Hey Asarian, just listened to the latest Firefly Talk PodCast ( http://fireflytalk.libsyn.com)...

Congrats on getting on the "air" so to speak. I believe this thread was pretty much the entirety of the Forum Recap for this week. ;p

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Dearest Mother and Father

I hope you are both well and doing fine.
Things are okay here at the school as
I am doing well in school. My teachers and
proffessors all say it is so. I have
missed the familiar surroundings of love.
But a lot more than I thought I would.

My thoughts often wander to the
grand time we had last summer at
the lake. I/It was warm and sunny
and the lake, the deep blue, cristal clear
waters just made those/them summer days
melt away.

We all had such a good tyme
swimming and boting and all under...
and sleeping the old(?) caben. I...
did not want it to...
while...

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Originally posted by Lvs2read:

Ooh, this is fun! I read old handwriting when researching family history. Who knew I'd apply those skills to Firefly!?! Anyway, here's my take on the letter in question. I screen capped it from my disc, so got a few more words than are shown on your cap, but nothing major. The ellipses indicate where Simon's thumb is, or the letter disappears off screen. Also, I kept the line beginnings and misspellings.

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Dearest Mother and Father

I hope you are both well and doing fine.
Things are okay here at the school as
I am doing well in school. My teachers and
proffessors all say it is so. I have
missed the familiar surroundings of love.
But a lot more than I thought I would.

My thoughts often wander to the
grand time we had last summer at
the lake. I/It was warm and sunny
and the lake, the deep blue, cristal clear
waters just made those/them summer days
melt away.

We all had such a good tyme
swimming and boting and all under...
and sleeping the old(?) caben. I...
did not want it to...
while...

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I know some of the lines don't make a lot of sense, but then they weren't supposed to, were they? *g*

Thanks for giving my brain a workout!

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Originally posted by V:

Ok, now I just feel stupid for asking what am I missing here? I knew that she was writing to Simon in a type of code, somehow in the way she worded her messages and the obvious bad grammar thrown in somehow, but what to make of it other then what Simon figured out?

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