but she prolly

wouldn't have visited if I lived in Schenectady. Okay, she also visited a year and a half ago in New Mexico to help work on the house, which was nice. But she's retired, and all her other friends are sticks-in-the-mud (like mine perhaps?)

so I would need some kind of false assurance that you would visit me someday, even if you have no intention to.

Hey, wanna write a fake (okay, let's say "exaggerated") letter of recommendation for me? I need a really over-the-top LOR to get me into Johns Hopkin.