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It was a joy to read the four fishing stories (by Melissa Bank, John Grogan, Carl Hiaasen and Jane Smiley). It made me think of the experiences I enjoyed as a boy and those shared as my six children were introduced to fishing. Thank you very much for such an interesting weekend magazine.
Nephi Lawlor, Mesa, Arizona

Today's cover is a knockout. But best of all, as has been with my viewing experience with LIFE since its very first issue, my sole disappointment has always been reaching the last page too soon.
Dick Stadler, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Thank you so very much for the touching essay by Patti Davis in tribute to her father, Ronald Reagan. I read it while eating lunch, tears running down my face. My mother died in November 2004, my father died in November 2005, and I still feel the grief of their deaths.
Barbara A. Horner, Boise, Idaho

I want to encourage more features like the recent one in which the photographer and writer selected people at random and explored and photographed what these people had in their pockets. I find this kind of "found" subject matter to be extremely fascinating—a genuine, unprogrammed look at the story each and every person has to tell.
Fred. W. Wright Jr., Seminole, Florida

My congratulations to photographer Danny Goldfield (who set out to take a picture of one child from each of the world’s nations living in New York City). In my 70 years, I have never had a photo move me as much as Toumani Diabate's (from Mali). It's wonderful that Goldfield was able to catch him at that moment of total connection to the music.
Maureen Claps, Northfield, Illinois

I enjoy reading your magazine every week, but I felt the need to clarify an alarming misconception mentioned in your recent article "A Child From Every Nation," where you included American children under the category of children of other nations. It is time that people stop assuming that Americans who have an ethnic look are somehow not as equally American as people whose ancestors are European and have moved to the U.S. a few more decades ago. If you were born here, you are an American.
Carmen A., Manchester, Connecticut

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