Hi Dee,
Thanks for letting me know about the Zippo. I think I'll pick it up when I come down to work for Senator Obama on Super Tuesday or the weekend before, along with the other stuff.
I don't think you understand what the pressure of your insistent requests, demands, and information divulging is doing to me. It is placing me between two sets of people that I care about, trying to find a way to please both. It is using me as a tool to fight your battle for you; your fight is an adult's fight between yourself and my mother. I have no place in this fight. It is causing me such emotional stress that I am losing sleep, and my personality has been noticeably different to people who know me well.
There is nothing I can do to influence either party, one way or the other. There is no purpose to your continuing to use me as a playing piece, unless you wish to continue causing me pain, which I do not believe is your intention.
I think you might now understand why I come down to visit so infrequently; each time I leave very distressed and unhappy.
I hope you understand what you were doing to my head in the past few months, and will desist.
Sincerely yours,
Ryan