To whomever it was that robbed my home,

Dear Thieves,

It has come to my attention that you are extremely proud of yourselves for kicking in my front door and robbing my home when I left to follow the ambulance to the hospital the night my husband died last month (2/16/2014).

I thought you should know however, that you might possibly have bragged about your brave and audacious feat (robbing the dead) to the wrong people, as they are talking. So, be careful that you don’t break your arm patting yourselves on the back.

I feel my earlier letter to you may be the cause of the difficulty that you have experienced in your attempts to sell my things. I apologize for that. No, wait, I don’t apologize for that, that was my intention – to make it difficult for you to sell my things.

Most people have ethics and values. While they might usually be willing to purchase the fruits of your labor, there is a line they won’t cross. You know, the line that you crossed, robbing from the dead.

Most people don’t want the stigma that comes with possessing things that come from grave robbers. Like I said, they have ethics and realize that some things are just wrong no matter how you spin the facts.

But, let’s get back to my original intent in writing to you today. I hope your time in jail won’t be too awfully bad, though I suspect it might. You do know, don’t you, that even hardened criminals have two things that they find as unacceptable to be committed by their fellow inmates, the first being child rapists and the second being grave robbers.

It saddens me to realize how very desperate you must have been to commit such a despicable act.

While it is obvious that you do not care what I or anyone else thinks about you, I thought I’d let you know that I have forgiven you, as hate only hurts the hater, not the hated.

I’m afraid though, that your fellow inmates won’t be as accepting of your behavior as I have been.

I wish you luck in your future career as prison inmates, I fear you may need it.

Mrs. David (Naomi) Richmond lives in Lower Lake, Calif.