David Stafford is another faithful correspondent, who has not given up on me, sending cryptic messages, despite my slow responses - sending an ampersand to the rescue of poor old x! 

This card left me befuddled for a long time, until I realised these sentences are options for the speech bubble on the front. Doh!

I had to google some of the meanings, and I thought my command of English was really rather good! Now I know what a witch's chin is (an unpleasant aesthetic defect characterized by ptosis of premental tissue and a deep submental fold, which may be exaggerated by hyperprojection of the mandible.) and how to try my own hand.

It's taken me about two years to come up with a suggestion: 

"Sorry, for offending you, I thought you were trying to be ironic!"

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Comment by David Stafford on December 20, 2018 at 7:27pm

That's a good one, xx. Appropriate for our times. Happy to see these old strangers show up again in my life. Thank you for posting.

Comment by xx Jones on December 17, 2018 at 7:24pm

Well, Debra Mulnick maybe I am wrong! :-)

Comment by Debra Mulnick on December 17, 2018 at 6:49pm

XX - Thanks for posting and commenting.  I might have never have guessed the sentences were intended for the speech bubble either.  Very interesting mail, indeed.

Comment by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 17, 2018 at 8:25am

enchanting...!

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