A little while after I moved from Utopia to IN, I received an email from a small cousin. Kaelin would have been about 4 years old at the time, so her Mom translated.

Tom
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Tom,
You should come back and marry her sometime. (I think the “her” in the preceeding sentence refers to Jewel.)

We miss you around here. Can you please come back? Because I can’t remember what you look like. This is from Kaelin. I never saw Jewel before. That’s all.

Then a few months later I received another one!

Tommy,
There are three reasons why you should come out to Oregon. One reason is because I want to hear you sing out here. The next reason is because I want to hear you sing at church. The next reason is so that you can preach at church and things like that.

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Kaelin

Trust me, the requests for my preaching are few and far between!