I sure appreciate your contacting me. My great grandfather, Samuelly Heney, was one of the principal investigators into the disappearance of Amelia Earhart, the famed woman aviator whose plane disappeared over the Pacific in 1937. Unlike other investigators, Samuelly was convinced that she overshot all her targets and ended up marooned on an island somewhere in the Indian Ocean.
In a bizarre twist of fate, his own plane crashlanded on Sri Lanka in the early 1940s, and while he survived, he was unable to repair his plane. He spent several years in a suburb of Colombo before meeting a young adventurer named Pari McKuster. Samuelly and Pari ended up buying a boat and sailed eastward. They ended up in modern day Burma, where they helped squash a rebellion by the Ewoks, a native people who lived in the interior of the country. As a result, the ruler of Burma, Vut KiRiprip, the so-called “Cardinal King” sent them on a special mission to Jakarta, where he was trying to find the kidnapped prince of Singapore. Samuelly went on alone, as Pari had become an invertebrate (you know, confined to a wheelchair). Although he scoured the area, Samuelly never found the prince, who, it was assumed, died of polio. Disenchanted, he eventually moved back to Nebraska, where he took a job as the manager of one of the first McDonalds franchises in the Great Plains. There, he met a Sumatran woman, and they relocated.
But back to your client and your situation. It is a sorry, sorry situation and heart-breaking (no pun intended). Were you close with him or her? That must be tough on you, as well. My condolences. I know it has been six whole years since the tragic disaster in Indonesia, but the pain never fully subsides, you know?
If I am the lone survivor, and the money you speak of would rightfully be mine, please let me know how we should proceed in this matter. Although the whole idea of the inheritance is new to me, I think it might be appropriate to take some portion of the money and put it toward a memorial to my distant relative and all the other victims of the tsunami, those who died, those who didn’t die but died later, those who still might die, and those of us who are the living ones who have memory of things and so forth and such. I’d appreciate your thoughts on that, too.
I look forward to your sincere and most speedy reply,
Paul
Ewoks? Nice touch!