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Uttering tomy first letter

Chapter One

Killian

“Mail!” Gunnery Sergeant Wilkes calls as he enters our tent in theup because I don’t get mail unless it’s from the Navy

Since they handedanything

“Captain, there’s a letter here for you,” Wilkes calls, forcing me to look up frooes on patrol at sun down

“Thanks Gunny,” I say as he hands it to me

I flip it side over side, pondering its contents Wondering if it’s addressed to the wrong person Finally looking at the addressing on the front, I see my roll-call number and I know immediately it’s a pity letter

I know soram, I personally don’t It’s a painful reotten dozens of letters over the years and I’ve tossed them all

Just as I’m about to toss this one, I stop Would it hurt to open it? I’ home soon, the return address is from Maryland, maybe it’s someone I could connect to once I’m back stateside

“Shit,” I groan opening the da

I inspect the paper before I read the words Pink, frilly, s is insanely neat

Sin to read

Captain,

Hey, hi, uh a bitsince I’m obviously unsure of what the heck to write

Crap

Well here goes I guess

I was asked to write a letter, get a few friends to write some letters, yadda yadda Honestly, it feels like a blind date You know the kind, you don’t really want to go on it but for some stupi

d reason you do, and before you know it your trapped in so when really you just want a pint of Ben & Jerry’s and to binge on Netflix?

Wow, that sounds so selfish and bad I wish I could say I don’t

My dad asked ht hey! I could raders are weird creatures and barely connect with each other How a to someone they don’t even know? Yanno?

Unlikely

Anyways, I apologize for every ritten above I’ood idea I’ll never know, but I’ve started so why not finish?

If you don’t write back, I don’t blame you (I mean that) if you choose to, I look forward to it and I’ll try to be less weird, but I make no promises