AUSTIN, Texas — One of the seven letters 8-year-old Virginia wrote her parents, Lacy and Lars Hollis, while she was at Camp Mystic this summer had a sticker pasted to the back. “Be happy, Love, Virginia,” it read.
In the letter, the young girl said: “Mommy, you were right. This is the best. I’m having so much fun,” Lacy Hollis recalled. Virginia had wished her mom a happy July 4th.
Eight-year-old Abby, too, had written her mother and father, Kristin and Matthew Pohl, as well as her grandparents and both sets of cousins. “On her note to me, her last one, she had written stars all over the envelope and all over the note, and it just said: ‘Dear Mom, I’m having so much fun. I’m making so many new friends. I love you. See you in Austin,’” Kristin Pohl said in a “TODAY” show interview with Jenna Bush Hager.
The letters are now precious treasures for the Camp Mystic parents, the last of the voices and thoughts of their daughters…