From: Michel Noddy
To: chunyan lu
Subject: we married!
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 23:39

Hello dear:

how's your new year's day?
i've just finished my dinner with you.
as (probably) you know, i had spent a time to have
the first breakfast of the day with you at 0:00 AM
of the first day of 2000 millennium after listened to
the "bells of the New Year's Eve" ringing.

it had been a time never forgotten for me. i had got
a cushion for you at said DIY shop and you sat on it.
i also got "tokkuri" and "ochoko" set to drink with you.
they are Imari-pottery with color resemble to chinese design,
very colorful drawings of flowers and birds.
these pottery were placed on a beautiful Japanese tray.
i warmed osake（お酒） in the "tokkuri" and you served to me.

for a new year's week we eat rice cake pounded in mortar（臼）.
i think mortar is female and pestle（杵） is male.
in fact, a man pounds rice with pestle and a woman kneads it
in the mortar. they have to get on very well.

today i sent several mails to my friends as my new year's greeting.
there happened some trouble now. in my last mail,
i noted a post-script that "a battle ended" but it hadn't.
i received a mail from a man and it informed me the battle
was started again.

it's a rather complex situation and i cannot fully explain
the matter to you now, but it is something concerning to the Net
and the communication on the Net.
i'll tell you all of those things later(someday).

waiting you,
Michel
2000.1.1.

P.S.
i couldn't release the "Yelkova Tree alpha version" in the old years.
but i barely could run the program at least as it had been.
we've lost all of sample data(very enormous amount) in those
days and then i had to make one.

can you imagine what kind of sample i made then?
i first entered my name on the dialog panel of our program.
next, i input your name in the field of "Spouse" of my card.
my name and yours were displayed on the window side by side
connected by a line with connective mark.
that is, we married on the screen!
your name seemed very charming and they looked like fitting nicely.
like,
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　　　　陸 春燕--+