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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 letter makes my heart ache

Our lettersfor 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 name is the least I can do

Looking 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,