I trust your instincts and will follow your advice.
Love, Dodo
Joseph Kisarian→Dolly Peale Dear Dodo,
Lulu has basked in your love the whole of her life, and that is what matters. Please ease your mind. Your help with the babies will be invaluable, giving Lulu time to （hopefully） reconnect with old friends online, and perhaps even in person. I’m so grateful to you for this. Omar and Festa adore their grandma, as do we.
Love, Jojo
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Lulu Kisarian→Kitty Jackson
Dear Kitty Jackson,
We haven’t seen each other in decades, but we are not strangers. You may remember me as the 9-year-old girl who accompanied you on a secret visit to X, then ruled by General B, with my mother, Dolly Peale, 26 years ago （！）。 My mother and I have celebrated your many professional triumphs since that strange and otherworldly journey.
I’m writing very much out of the blue, I know. I’ve had a craving to reconnect with you ever since I returned two years ago from a hard overseas stint of my own that made me think about our trip to X and imagine what it must have been like for you. But also, last week I watched your most recent film, Dazzle Me Sideways, with Jazz Attenborough. I need very urgently to correspond with Mr. Attenborough. Can you please help me get in touch with him?
Awaiting your reply, Lulu Peale Kisarian
Ashleigh Avila→Lulu Kisarian
Dear Ms. Kisarian,
Ms. Jackson thanks you for your recent email. She is, unfortunately, not able to make introductions to fellow actors, and suggests that you write to Mr. Attenborough via his publicist, or perhaps his social media accounts.
With best wishes, Ashleigh Avila
Lulu Kisarian→Kitty Jackson
Dear Kitty,
I am not some crazed fan deserving of an assistant’s reply. I am the daughter of Dolly Peale, the publicist who single-handedly revived your career in 2008. I am also a 35-year-old professional with many years of successful music industry work behind me, including helping to produce Scotty Hausmann’s Footprint Concert fourteen years ago.
I am asking, politely and respectfully, for your help in reaching Mr. Attenborough. It is not a lot to ask, considering what my mother did for you.
Awaiting your reply, Lulu Kisarian
FWD: Ashleigh Avila→Kitty Jackson
See below. Polite “no”？
Kitty→Ashleigh
Just realized who she is. Will handle.
Kitty Jackson→Lulu Kisarian; bcc: Ashleigh Avila
Dear Lulu,
Wowowowowowowowow… is it really you?!? So sorry you got caught in the snares of my manager/publicist/assistant/mama bear, who tries to make things （and people） disappear without my knowing they ever existed!
I’ve spent the past fifteen minutes catching up on your achievements. Scotty Hausmann’s Footprint Concert… What????? SOOOOO IMPRESSED!!! I’ve pretended that I was AT that concert, but I’ll know better than to try that with you! I trust your mom is alive and well? Send news! And tell me, of course, how I can help.
Xxxxoooo Love, Kitty
Lulu→Kitty
Dear Kitty,
It’s exciting to hear back from you in a voice I remember as yours. I’m still recovering from a period of overseas service that has left me with a reconstructed right shoulder. It has brought me to a state of reckoning that I somehow think you will recognize: I can’t return to the life I had before, but I can’t move forward without resolving some unfinished personal business.