Dear Ms. Mercy,
Thank you for your interest in the Time Travel Adoption Agency. We have been lucky enough to find siblings for you to adopt.
As you can see, there are three girls here, hailing from 1909. They are the Bell sisters. Constance Winifred, on the far right, is nine; Celia Marguerite, on the left, is seven; and Alice Mildred, in the center, is five.
You have been chosen to adopt Celia and Alice Bell, if you so choose. (Constance has already been promised to another family.) Celia is a quiet, bright young girl with high marks in school and a penchant for reading; she's especially fond of Gene Stratton Porter's
Freckles, though it wasn't a book her parents approved of. Alice is much less shy and tends to say exactly what's on her mind, though she's told to mind her keep; you can tell by her eyes that she's a skeptical little creature! She does, however, have a slight limp due to the fact that one of her legs is slightly shorter than the other. We hope that this will not jeopardize her possibility of being placed with you.
The Bell girls' parents died recently in a boating accident, and it is important that we are able to fit them with a new parent or parents as soon as possible. Thank you for your generous offer to consider taking them in. All of our potential adoptees understand that they may be requested to go by new names in their new lives and are not averse to the possibility, though we at the Time Travel Adoption Agency recommend that a new parent or parents keep at least some vestiges of their old names.
Sincerely yours,
Arraya Light
P.S. After having the girls a few months, should you indeed confirm your adoption, we would be delighted to receive a letter in return; it is important for us to follow up on our charges and see if the children are adjusting to their vastly different ways of life.
This message was edited 6/14/2008, 8:28 AM