[ It warms Violet's heart immensely when she receives the letter and the device. It's only the second letter she's ever received. She reads and re-reads over it's contents for a long time, a small smile on her face, and it's likewise another day or two before her reply. ]
Mr. D,
Thank you for your insight in your previous letter. I believe it is good advice. Meeting and talking to new people, coming to understand their ways of life, was the highlight of my job as an Auto Memory Doll. I believe I had lost sight of that. Getting to know others' stories is something precious and irreplaceable indeed. I do not believe it will fix the root of the problem... but I have hope it will at least distract from the homesickness. ... I will try to write letters home as well. ... Though I am not quite sure what I would say.
Recently I feel as if I do nothing but thank you, but I must also say thank you for the cipher device. It is not only functional, but beautiful as well. ... I will treasure it.
I did not understand the concept of "beauty" for a long time, or why it was important to others. I only understood "useful" and "not useful," and beauty seemed to come under the second category. But if one considers "beautiful" to be something so elegant that it warms your heart to look at, then I cannot consider it to be wholly useless. It is important to have things in our lives that bring us warmth and joy, don't you think?
Knowing that you put effort into this device just for me... that brings me warmth and joy. So I can only look upon it as beautiful.
I would like to write more, but I believe I am bothering my roommate with my typing, so I will leave the rest until next time.
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Mr. D,
Thank you for your insight in your previous letter. I believe it is good advice. Meeting and talking to new people, coming to understand their ways of life, was the highlight of my job as an Auto Memory Doll. I believe I had lost sight of that. Getting to know others' stories is something precious and irreplaceable indeed. I do not believe it will fix the root of the problem... but I have hope it will at least distract from the homesickness. ... I will try to write letters home as well. ... Though I am not quite sure what I would say.
Recently I feel as if I do nothing but thank you, but I must also say thank you for the cipher device. It is not only functional, but beautiful as well. ... I will treasure it.
I did not understand the concept of "beauty" for a long time, or why it was important to others. I only understood "useful" and "not useful," and beauty seemed to come under the second category. But if one considers "beautiful" to be something so elegant that it warms your heart to look at, then I cannot consider it to be wholly useless. It is important to have things in our lives that bring us warmth and joy, don't you think?
Knowing that you put effort into this device just for me... that brings me warmth and joy. So I can only look upon it as beautiful.
I would like to write more, but I believe I am bothering my roommate with my typing, so I will leave the rest until next time.
Yours sincerely,
Violet Evergarden