Happy New Year! Have a Chapter 3 Preview!

Since this is a Duet, I've been doing a disfavor to my addition to the Apple Clan. As such, let's strike up the melody that accompanies the bass, hmmm?

Dearest Greensleeves,
I pray this letter finds you well. I apologize I cannot be there personally to tell you this news, but you know how the Circuit goes. Every gig could be your last, and I had to do this one for personal reasons. So let me say this bluntly before I start waxing poetic on you. Your sister, Octavia, is coming to the next Reunion. Likely the confirmation hasn't been sent yet, but I have it on good accounts that she will arrive, possibly in the company of the Oranges and a friend or two. I know it has been forever since you or any Apple have seen her, but please don't harbor any ill will towards her. She suffered, same as all of us, at your father's passing and needed to go about things in her own way. I wish I could be there to see you both side by side for the first time in years, but this benefits concert should help prevent other ponies from ending up like we did.
I must confess I MIGHT have pulled the Promise on her by saying exaggerating a few things. Which reminds me, did your cough get better? I know it was only a light cold, but you really should look after yourself a lot more. And you simply must go out and meet other ponies dear, as active as I am, I may see your Father any day now. When we do meet in the great beyond, I do hope to tell him about the kind of stallion that would take care of our grandfoals and yourself.
I love you dearly, and I know Octavia does too.
Your mother,
Jazz 'Jazz Band' Apple

That's all you get for now, as I hammer out the rest of the details and events surrounding Chapter 3, The Letter, Flipside (title pending)

By the by, Babs being the second daughter of the Oranges seems more and more likely, I just noticed the Oranges being in the big family group picture, so I'm sticking to it! Until next time everyone, Happy New Year!