From:

James Ezra
1800 Beaumont Dr. 411D
Norman, OK 73071

To:
Christina Martinez #931071
1401 State School Rd.
Gatesville, TX 76599

Dear Christina,

Considering the recent receipt of your letter, I must rewrite you a second letter. In the first, I was under
the bashful impression that you might have escaped before my first correspondence had gotten to you,
and you might have been settled in a Heimlich getaway with your past behind you.

But, you interjected with a great storyletter from your heart that I decently followed.

I am glad we are to share in common an appreciation for the learning experience which I of all people
remain very opinionated about. As a person of a diverse upbringing, I attended a very traditional school
the opposite in etiquette of my original choicea private school in the rural-urban area of Oklahoma
City; on the opposite side of town. After going through a hard transition from junior college, my audition
in musical theatre failed at the private four-year University and this current college was my last option. I
am reluctantly finishing with a Bachelors in English and two minor certificates in Dance and
Anthropology, and a transfer-degree in Associate in Arts (Liberal Studies). After returning to college at
the age of twenty-five, I am now thirty-one preparing for Graduate school back in New York.

On the topic of curricular subjects, who were some of your favorite authors while studying? I found the
value in story telling at an early age, which continues to appeal to my beliefs, and desire for human
mythologya pure connection to cultural folklore exploring tales that have historical memories
embedded within them. That of heroic prophetic characters rarely told as much as stories popularized in
Greek Mythology. Would you believe that heroes appeared all around the world, whether in Africa
southern India, or IndonesiaJakarta, Java, an island south of India. Some heroes and heroines in the
stories of folklore have superpowers or supernatural gifts; some are normal human beings like you and I.

To give an expos there is a story written by a Javanese writer Salmon Rushdie entitled The Prophets
Hair. A father who was an excellent trader, and debt collector found the relic of a martyrs hair in the
sea one evening at sail. In its authentic vile glasshe kept it under the extreme caution of its prophetic
value. Although I began this story with the father, it originally begins with his daughter and son both
attempting to find thieves to confiscate their fathers relic while asleep in his study room. Their
excursion through the dark to find these burglars turns into, later in the story, a massacre at their
fathers house. The daughter finds her own life taken by the end of her fathers sword after an intruder
startles him in the dark and mistakes her for the thief.

Often, we find something special in the middle of nowhere and go through a length of adventure to
keep it. These challenges often come from the ones we love and often become the exchange in matters
of possessionlife and death and karma.
Whether a part of a mans flesh was lost, or re-discoveredall we have is each other in the end; a
fortune in itself.

Could you imagine finding a part of Jesus Christ, or Muhammad the prophet and Caliph in a sea of your
own. There was no other ship at sail but yours and you felt the desire to place this lonely relic in your
palmthere was only the sea and the soul within it to witness the exchange.

This story is similar to our own exchanges with God in our very own waysas we receive the gifts that
change our lives, and the lives of those around us, once we return to shore, our futures are often
determined by the values we place on the everyday relationships which we encounter in the ocean; in
our heart, our soul and deepest thoughts.

I will end this letter a second time and hope that Ive shared with you a little more about me. Thank you
again for being a great advocate and I am sure your actions are felt by your peer group in a way that will
spread peace to all. Look forward to hearing more from you.

Best,

Ezra

July 13th, 2017