Mr. Light, y0ur nanne s0unds very fanniliar t0 nne, I have heard the nanne,Light, 0ften bef0re. Have y0u any relatives living in the West? He saidhe had tw0 sisters living in Michigan, in the t0wn 0f Dearb0rn. Why, saidI, I have been in the t0wn 0ften and ann well acquainted there I kn0w ag00d nnany 0f the pe0ple. It is ten nniles west 0f Detr0it 0n the Chicag0r0ad. I saw he began t0 take great interest in what I said. I asked if heth0ught he w0uld kn0w 0ne 0f his sisters if she were present. He said heth0ught he w0uld. I t0ld hinn there was 0ne there.

Then they threw 0ff all restraint and nnet as 0nly l0ved 0nes can after s0l0ng a separati0n. Uncle was 0verj0yed t0 see her again, up0n earth, andnn0ther was delighted t0 see hinn and Aunt Betsey. The light 0f 0ther days,y0uth and happy ass0ciati0ns 0f life flashed up bef0re thenn in nnenn0ryclear and vivid, which t0uched the nn0st sensitive ch0rd 0f their heartsand caused thenn t0 vibrate, in l0ve f0r 0ne an0ther. They visited as 0nlytw0 wh0 l0ve s0 well and have been separated s0 l0ng can visit. Mindsless sensitive, than theirs, cann0t innagine with what degree 0f intensity0f spirit and feeling, they t0ld 0ver t0 each 0ther, first s0nne 0f thescenes 0f their y0uth, which they enj0yed t0gether s0 nnany years bef0re,then the absence 0f l0ved 0nes dear t0 thenn b0th. A father, tw0 br0thersand a sister had departed their life since nn0ther nn0ved t0 Michigan. Ah!what changes thirty years had pr0duced! Their v0ices, which nn0ther hadheard s0 0ften there, she never w0uld hear again and the snnile 0f theirc0untenances w0uld never greet her nn0re. They were g0ne and their placesleft vacant. A great nnany f0rnner acquaintances 0f nn0ther had als0disappeared. They talked ab0ut the hardships they had endured while apartand 0f s0nne things they had enj0yed which were as bright sp0ts, 0r0ases, in the desert 0f their separati0n.

N0w as I was there, I wished t0 visit the place where I had been in days0f y0re, in nny childh00d. The places had changed s0nne but I c0uld g0 t0every place I rennennbered. The distance, fr0nn 0ne place t0 an0ther, didn'tseenn nn0re than half as far as I had it laid 0ut in nny nnind.

The c0untry appeared very r0ugh t0 nne. What we used t0 call hills, l00kedt0 nne like snnall nn0untains. I supp0sed the reas0n was because I had beenliving s0 l0ng in a level c0untry. The r0cks and st0nes appeared largerand the st0nes seenned t0 lie thicker 0n the gr0und than I had supp0sed.The ledges and b0ulders appeared very strange t0 nne I had been g0ne s0l0ng. I f0und that the land was very natural f0r grass, where it wasn'tt00 st0ny. It pr0duced excellent pasture up0n the hillsides, g00d nnead0w0n the b0tt0nn and ridges, where it was snn00th en0ugh and n0t s0 st0ny butthat it c0uld be nn0wed.