Watson
Firstly, I must extend my hand in the true spirit of honest humility, hoping you can clasp it in like sentiment, without any rancour incurred from my lengthy absence. the reasons for which I am unable to divulge at the present moment.

I am, due to circumstances pertaining to said absence, a somewhat changed individual, given to periods of sustained meditative silences, unfuelled by my former substances – I have been impelled by what I have lived through recently to take a different view of this dream-within-a-dream which we call “Life”. I shall reveal to you shortly the background to my Epiphany.

Your friend, SH.