The following is an actual letter that was sent to a bank by a 96-year-old woman. The bank manager thought it amusing enough to have it published in the New York Times.

To whom it may concern,

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It’s been a long wet, cold winter, and most of our new trees have been bare and dead looking -some of them actually are I think.

So it’s with some relief as the weather has got warmer that our trees are coming to life again.

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I wasn’t intending to eat these, but our ducks aren’t quite ready to be mothers yet, so they just abandon the eggs, rather than sit on them and keep them warm.

The eggs are about the same size as chicken eggs, but the yolks are notably bigger. They taste, well, different, I guess. They tend to sit in my stomach for a long time, so I guess I’m just not used to them yet.