Because

When I was a little kid someone told me that I always needed to start a letter with the following two sentences:

How are you? I am fine.

So, for years, beginning at about age six, I would start all of my letters to friends and relatives that way. However, one day I looked at the latest letter I was writing and said to myself: "That is fucked up. I need to stop that shit."

I think I was 38.

Potato Knob, Black Mountains of NC. (Why? Because.)