Dear friend Derpy,

Wow. I can't believe you were able to respond to me! When I got your reply, i literally jumped out of my chair, and ran around my house. My parents thought that I was crazy, but you probably know how that is. Right? Anyway, what you wrote to me actually inspired me to work on my relationships with my friends. Old enemies became close friends, I started to hang out with distant friends that I mostly ignored. All that, and more, just for a bit of advice. Have you considered becoming a shrink or something? On to a more serious note, you are a great friend. You know that? It's true, one hundred percent. And as for your friend Lyra, she needs to know, you can tell her all about me.
But let me catch you up to speed, about what has been going on around me lately. Recently, my grandfather died. You remember me telling you about that, right? And after he died, my family sort of drifted apart. My uncle and his family isolated themselves in a different part of the country, and my grandma underwent a drastic change in how she looked at life and family. The only family members that my immediate family remained close to, were my cousins. My mom and my aunt are close sisters, so their relationship as siblings is basically what held us together, that and one of my cousins is like a brother to me. The other is what you would call, a parent's ideally behaved child. I don't even remember the last time he did something even remotely worthy of punishment. And my third cousin, she and my sister are inseparable.
After my grandpa's death, things got bad. Then, a real estate company that all of my family had invested in was found out to be a ponzi scheme. What did this do to us? I caused my family to loose over $1.5 Million. (dollars are a form of currency were I live. I have no idea how much that would be in bits, but lets just say that it's worth a million bits.) Then the founder and CEO of that fraudulent company was arrested, and is currently up for trial. But things got worse. Now, a state attorney is suing my family, including my uncle, aunt, and grandma, along with 153 of the 600 victims of the ponzi scheme. The amount we're being sued for, let's just say that it's more than we lost from the actual ponzi scheme, by about a million dollars.
I just don't know what to do. I am having a really hard time trying to put a positive spin on my current situation. The only thing good that any of this has done, if you can even call it good, is that now all of my family is on the same page again. My uncle is actually communicating with us again, and my grandma has decided to actually pay for a lawyer. She hasn't decided to pay for something so expensive, not since her refrigerator of 55 years died. It is a miraculous event. But under the circumstances, I wish that it didn't have to happen this way.
But even as I go through this. I still have my friends. The have always been there, to listen, much like you have been. They have given me all the support in the world, and I can't thank them enough. And you, my friend from another world, you have given me a new hope. And that hope is what made me seek out my friends, and to repair my damaged relationships. I thank you once again for that, and all the helpful advice you have given me. Someday, I hope to meet you.

Your Friend Forever,
Mitch