September 3rd

Dear Doctor Bedford,

No, I’m not put off in the least-how exciting! I wouldn’t mind at all your discussing ‘my case study’ on some alternative-healing programme and of course I totally trust you with all our correspondence. What I meant by confidence is that you wouldn’t tell my husband, for instance if I told you something that I know he wouldn’t like, or maybe my mum. My mum has tried to bring me up as a catholic and doesn’t really get on with all the alternative kinds of things there are now. Sometimes, I know what she means and feel quite catholic myself but most of the time I can see a little bit of sense in a lot of things, which leaves I sometimes think a bit of a hazy picture.

Would you be discussing me on television-Sara says she has seen you on a Sunday morning programme a few times? If you were to discuss me on the television, would you have to use my name, or where I lived? I don’t think I’d be too happy for that to happen-although I suppose it would depend on what was being talked about.

By the way, I think you chopped a bit of ‘Yogi’s’ advice off the end, the bit that tells you which road to take. The way it read on my email was ‘When you come to a fork on the road just take it’; it doesn’t tell you which road to take- which isn’t very helpful, but thanks anyway.

Love Charlotte.

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