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"Why should I help you!"

"Don't help me Help Ender What does it matter if that helps us, too?"

"What kind of terrible things are you doing to him up there?"

Graff chuckled "Valentine, in"

Ender was four lines into the letter before he realized that it wasn't from one of the other soldiers in the Battle School It had coned into his desk He read four lines into it, then skipped to the end and read the signature Then he went back to the beginning, and curled up on his bed to read the words over and over again

ENDER,

THE BASTARDS WOULDN'T PUT ANY OF

MY LETTERS THROUGH TILL NOW I

MUST HAVE WRITTEN A HUNDRED TIMES

BUT YOU MUST HAVE THOUGHT I NEVER

DID WELL I DID I HAVEN'T

FORGOTTEN YOU I REMEMBER YOUR

BIRTHDAY I REMEMBER EVERYTHING

SOME PEOPLE MIGHT THINK THAT

BECAUSE YOU'RE BEING A SOLDIER