Fifth letter: Back in Bucerías

Hello again, friends. The statistics kept here on Medium tell me that there are between one and ten of you who may read these letters on any given day. I am so very grateful that you do.

I know that you will forgive redundancies, misspellings, and even repetitions to some degree; I appreciate your indulgence. Whatever skill I had at preventing such errors seems to have been much abraded by time and the pharmaceuticals I ingest daily. But I am grateful to them, too — to the blessed, hated drugs that allow me to function, if to a lesser degree. I accept the bargain.