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Chapter One

Katie

“Miss Lovely There’s one na in front of ers His blond shaggy hair hangs over his eyes, in dire need of a haircut, but this seems to be the style nowadays I can never keep up with the trends of high-school students

“Are you sure everyone got one?” I look around the roo to write their letters I signed my class up for Adopt-a-Marine as part of their Civics project Everyone was excited to do it, mostly because I don’t think any of them had ever written an actual letter before I’ve been with this group of students as their seminar teacher for two years now and still have another two years to go before a new batch will be assigned to me Hopefully by that point, e

When the idea of doing Adopt-a-Marine was mentioned, the whole class see noith everyone already eagerly writing their letters I wasn’t sure how they would respond to this project, but so far, so good

“Cindy,” I sigh, forgetting that she transferred out teeks ago “I’ll take it” I hold my hand out to take the paper fro I’d have ht, but I wasn’t going to let one of the naht of so a letterfor the Marines, but I think they’d help I don’t like the idea of so their letter when everyone else did, so taking a na down at the scrap of paper, a warh ht actually be I’m not really sure what to write, but if twenty of my students can do it, surely I can, too

“Looks like you’re stuck with eant Major Mark Gunner,” I uy to death with stories aboutover the weekend

Pulling out a notepad fros off light and it should be easy enough I givepep talk and hope for the best

Dear Sergeant Major Gunner,

It looks like you got stuck with me as your pen pal I hope I won’t bore you withexperience, butsooodies You’ll just have to tell me what you like and don’t like Raisins? Nuts? White chocolate chip? Let uess I should start off with a little bit about ned to my class as part of the Adopt-a-Marine project One student transferred out a feeeks ago, so now you gotyou a little about myself I’m a twenty-four-year-old teacher in South Carolina I went to Cleht want to know that I know nothing about the football teaers!’ I teach English, and this is h school I spendout new recipes, or with my nose shoved in a book I love the color pink, can’t stand when someone cheith their mouth open, and could spend days cuddled up on ht callwebsite application As you can see, I rae man seems to have done that toyou a little less strange toyou do for our country

Ms Katie Lovely

The bell rings as I sign e The students hurriedly pack up their belongings, wanting to get to lunch

“Everyone, drop your letters on my desk and I’llattention to what I’, but they all do as I say as theyletters into the box on the corner ofdown in my chair, I look at the letter I wrote, and for soe to crinkle it into a ball and start over It’s silly that I’m embarrassed to write a reat withcherry red to match my hair