Dear Alex,

As always, thank you for a telephone conversation which I treasure as one of
my most important bridges to our past.

Just for reference, although I neither ask nor expect you to take the time 
read all this: My notes to O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" are at
http://home.earthlink.net/~ernstmeyer/bookgroup/20050323_00bk.html

I hope we will soon talk on the telephone again.

Love, Jochen