Hi Liz;
You don't know me and although we've never met, once we were neighbors for awhile. It was when you had that place on the point in Hiana about a mile down the road from your son’s place, Taylor's Camp. My lover Kelly and I were living right next door to you in the abandoned papaya orchard called Five Acres for four months. All we had at the time was a big green tarp strung between two trees with some blankets to lay on. It wasn't much but it was enough. We were happy just to be there on the beautiful island of Kauai.
The reason I'm writing is to thank you for wearing the Puka Shell necklace to the Oscars that year. Before you did we were selling necklaces for $5 apiece to the tourist, and they weren’t buying too many. We were making barely enough to keep us in beer and pakalolo. After that night though, we just couldn't make them fast enough. Everybody had to have one. We even got $10 to $ 20 a piece for each of them.
It was a good life too. Get up at dawn, pick a baggie full of shells out of mother ocean then sit around all day in Hiana Park punching, stringing then selling them to the tourist who hunted for them on the beach all day and found only a few. They didn't know that the shells came in on the tides and thought they must be very rare, and that we had worked many long hard hours to gather so many. Then after the tourist went back to their hotels, we picked another baggie full of puka shells during high tide at sundown. Yes, it was a mighty fine time to be on Kauai in Paradise.
So I just though I’d write you to thank-you for helping us out. Life was good and easy for us on one of the most beautiful islands in the world and I'll always appreciate what you did for us.
Hope everything is going good for you. Take Care and Enjoy!
Love,
Tai
PS. You should find that Puke Shell necklace and wear it again. It looked as good on you as any old diamonds ever did.