At the Beach Again

From letter dated December 15, 1958

Carli has had the worst trouble about friends since we moved to Sarasota. There were two darling little girls on the block where we lived when we first moved back here from Miami. They moved out of the city about the same time we moved into this house on the beach. She found another little girl…a precious child; Carli played with her almost constantly till she moved away in October. Then Carli found another sweet little playmate…and she left Florida a week ago.

Now Carli has made friends with twins who live a couple blocks away. They were here Saturday and seem very attractive…they look exactly alike except that one is a blonde and the other a brunette. I want Carli to try to have more than one friend at a time (twins, in this sense qualify as a single friend!), but I can’t seem to get her to do it.