I think your wife forgot that she signed a settlement agreement with me back in April 2021.

Thinking back to those dark days (11/4/2019-4/2/2021), I can’t even begin to tell you how relieved I was to have that nightmare over with.

Although I wouldn’t be getting the 50% that I was entitled to, I would receive 9.99% of the future gross sales at Littleton Apothecary and, when the day came the business was sold, I’d get 9.99% of the sale. Your wife and I agreed, in writing, to not discuss the details of the lawsuit. It wasn’t a gag order: more of a decent-human-being standard.

Well, get this:

The next morning—the very next morning!—I get an out-of-the-blue text from Chuck Decoste, who, at the time, was running for re-election to the Select Board. Chuck shared with me the link to your wife’s candidate-for-select-board page. She was running to unseat Chuck.

You know, Matthew, there is little in this life that I’m sure of, but I am sure of this:

Your wife never would’ve run for a seat on the Select Board if she didn’t think she would win.

Never.

And that means your wife (and I would say by association, you, too, Matthew) had the arrogance to think she was so dearly beloved by the people of Littleton that she (and dearly-loved you, by extension) would overcome the political aversion that voters would naturally have to a married couple serving side-by-side on a 5-person board.

And aversions they had.

It came up all over the place during her campaign. She persisted, though, didn’t she?—with an arrogant sureness that the rules would be different for her, and by extension, it seems, for you, too, Matthew.

Well, as we know, she did not win.

I think there were two reasons why.

One was the “married couple” piece. That’s tough to get around. But the larger reason why she had her ass handed to her at the ballot box was she was a mean candidate.

A real sadist.

Your wife took several of my answers to her truly sadistic, truth-bending interrogatories (from the lawsuit we’d settled only the day before) and posted them as campaign material, immediately indicating that the decent-human-being standard would be broadly interpreted by her.

Because, surely, she thought she was doing Littleton voters a favor on her “Straight Talk” tab on her candidate’s page when she (1) pointed out events from my personal life (from October 2013-March 2014) and when she (2) reminded everyone of the alleged fiscal wrongdoings of a former Littleton town employee (who killed herself in the summer of 2017, leaving behind two minor children) and when she (3) shared what she’d scared up on a then-sitting Select Board member’s past run-in with the law.

People were agog.

But it wasn’t until she debated Chuck and called into question the many meetings he had missed that your wife’s cruelty was fully revealed, as she hammered away at him, alleging the shirking of his elected obligations.

Well, at the time, Matthew, Chuck’s wife was dying.

Your wife knew this. You knew this. Everyone knew this.

Mean.

And today, I can only imagine with all the hustle and bustle of those halcyon days when she imagined herself at the big-kids’ table, how she might have forgotten about our settlement.

I do know she knows I sued her: she posted the docket number to the lawsuit in early September on your Select Board FB page.

But we settled it. Two and half years ago.

Could you remind her of this? Maybe have her read it over?

It seems she owes me a lot of money.

TTYS,

Jkb