ROBERT WILLIAM JANES

313 WEST ILLINOIS STREET
URBANA, ILLINOIS

able to Nancy offering a promise of working out a new and better relation
there. The change in Alice is really surprising. We talked to Natalie
on the phone, so she knows.

But the real problem now is to get Nancy to feel her life is worth
living, and if she can link the daily hours to wonderful experiences such as
we had at Bagduce this summer, and the promise of more to come, I think
we can get her started. Otherwise it becomes a matter of months rather
than, with luck, years.

So this is certainly anti-climactic after what seemed the fine
promise appearing during the summer. But the support of you two, knowing you,
knowing you are with us in this, just knowing that you exist, is the kind
of help that will make it possible to do the best we can. And that's for
sure.

Nancy is in the hospital now, they're mainly trying to build her up
physically so we can move on from that. Poppy and I are keeping house, it's
finally turned into a gorgeous fall, and there's all kind of busywork in-
cluding teaching to keep my occupied. The good local hospital is a comfort
for Nancy, and all in all, this seems a good situation to be working from.

So that is how it is, I'll keep you informed of what comes next, but
really what makes it all at all possible is that all of us have each other.
Yes, indeed.