Dear deniseehoek ,

After the battle of Isla De Meurta, I was happy and content to be back living with my Daddy. Although, one setback was that my cabin was still just as I left it. Which meant it still had a crib, a mobile and cloth nappies. So I had to bunk with Daddy while the crew re-did my cabin. I loved how they used an old rowboat for my bed!

Daddy spoiled me for the first few weeks. We returned to Miss Sadie's shop and he bought me new clothes. That's when I invented a new phrase: Shop 'Till You Drop! Because at the end of the day, Daddy fainted when he saw how much we spent. He was fine, once I waved Mr. Gibbs flask under his nose.

I found the Pirate's Life to be way better than the life I had on Port Royal. I was never quite comfortable living on land, when I first arrived at the orphanage. I was stir crazy and longed for adventure. On the Black Pearl, all I have to do is wake up and step off the gangplank and there's somewhere new to explore. And at one point in Port Royal, I thought I had insomnia, because I couldn't sleep and would wandered around the orphanage at night. It turns out, I just wasn't used to sleeping without the Pearl's constant rocking. I haven't had a restless night since!

I told my Daddy all about how Miss Thiskle treated me at the orphanage. And my gosh, he was madder than a jilted wench on payday! He wrote a letter to Elizabeth Swann about what I said, and she told her father, who then dismissed Miss Thiskle and hired some new nicer ladies, who were more capable to take over the orphanage.

Last I heard, Miss Thiskle moved to a leaky little house on the edge of Port Royal. Every July 21st, (the day I started living on the Pearl with Daddy ❤️) we send her something awful as means of revenge. The first year, we sent her a lovely hat box and when she opened it, a swarm of ticks came scuttling out all over the house. 😬 The year after that, she opened the front door to find a caged skunk on her doorstep. Daddy fired off a cannon at the fort to scare the skunk, making it spray her. 🤭 And the year after that, we sent her box of chocolate covered strawberries... she gulped down over half the box, before she realized it was actually chocolate covered fish blatters! 🤢

It was a great father-daughter tradition, really. 🤣

Thanks for the questions!

Yours truly,
Maggie Sparrow.☠️❤️