He sent this note:

My wife and I were going to breakfast when we stopped to look at some deer in a clearing in a Forest Preserve by Lawrence and East River when this Big Boy came out to look at us!!!

Mr. & Mrs. Jim Weaver

That's a good breakfast break.

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