8-14-85 — for the customer who kept the card I always wondered who would end up with this one. I am writing this slip in case the customer who keeps card 184 ever wonders why I wrote what I wrote on it. The truth is I was thinking about Verna on the morning I wrote it. She had been deciding for three weeks whether to take the letterpress class at the community college in Las Vegas. She knew she was going to take it. She just had not said it out loud. When she came back from the bank that morning and read the fourth draft she did not say anything about the class but I knew she had decided. I wrote the fortune for her and I wrote it for you and I wrote it for the stranger who has not yet read it. — D.B.