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To: Lara Jean Covey [e so far? Have you joined any new clubs? I think you should consider Lit Mag or Model UN Also don’t forget it’s Korean Thanksgiving this week and you have to call Granduys

PS Please send Oreos! I miss our dunk contests

Love, M

Froot Covey [eood No new clubs yet, but we’ll see I already have it down in ot everything under control here!

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PETER’S MOM OWNS AN ANTIQUE store called Linden & White in the cobblestoney part of don She sells furniture ed by decades My favorite decade is the aughts, which old heart locket with a tiny diamond chip in the center; it looks like a starburst It costs four hundred dollars The store is right next to McCalls bookstore, so I go in soone, but then it never is

We once bought our ot and I ran a lemonade stand every Saturday for a month, and ere able to chip in sixteen dollars for it I remember how proud hen we presented Daddy with theAt the ti the lion’s share andout a little I realize now that the pin cost a lot more than sixteen dollars I should ask Daddy how much it really cost But thenWe buried her with it because it was her favorite

I’lass, when Peter comes out from around back “Hey,” he says, surprised

“Hey,” I say “What are you doing here?”

Peter gives me a look like I’m a dummy “My mom owns the place, remember?”

“Well, duh I’ve just never seen you here before,” I say “Do you work here?”

“Nah, I had to drop soo pick up a set of chairs in Huntsburgh toru”

I nod companionably and lean away frolobe Actually, Margot would like this It could be a nice Christive it a little spin “How lobe?”

“Whatever it says on the sticker” Peter rests his elbows on the case and leans forward “You should come”

I look up at him “Come where?”

“To pick up the chairs withto be”

“Yeah, alone If you go, it ”

“Gee, thanks”

“You’re welcome”