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When Kitty gets dropped off, I’ laundry She plops down on the couch on her belly and asksI just stayed ho to say that out loud Hastily I change the subject “So did Alicia’s mom make sweet crepes or salty ones?”

“She made both First we had ham and cheese and then we had Nutella How come we never have any Nutella?”

“I think ot’s throat itch”

“Can we get some next time?”

“Sure,” I say “We’ll just have to eat the whole jar before Margot comes home”

“No problem,” Kitty says

“On a scale of one to ten, how badly do you o?” I ask her

Kitty thinks this over “A six point five,” she says at last

“Only a six point five?”

“Yeah, I’ve been really busy,” she says, rolling over and kicking her legs up in the air “I’ve hardly had tiot outa sock at her head and Kitty explodes into a giggle fit I’ her armpits when Daddy co ca ! I scramble up and snatch it out of his hands It’s my letter to Kenny from camp It came back to me!

“Who’s Kenny?” Daddy wants to know

“Just a boy Ithe envelope open

Dear Kenny,

It’s the last day of camp and possibly the last time I will ever see you because we live so far apart Remember on the second day, I was scared to do archery and you made a joke about minnows and it was so funny I nearly peedA joke about minnows? How funny could it have been?

I was really hoht’ve left camp early if it hadn’t been for you, Kenny So, thank you Also you’re a really ah I wish it had been ht and not Blaire H

Take care, Kenny Have a really good rest of the suood life

Love, Lara Jean

I clutch the letter to lad it cah, I suppose it wouldn’t have been so bad if Kenny Donati got to know that he helped two people at camp that summer—the kid who al Covey