p style="margin-bottom: .14in; line-height: 115%;"Mary Anne bought Dawn a ghost mystery novel to read on the plane. I know Dawn loves those things, but instead I bought her a poetry book to read instead. A modern anthology by women poets who all had something to say on the state of the world./p
p style="margin-bottom: .14in; line-height: 115%;"I really only bought the book because I had written a letter for Dawn to read once she boarded the plane. I slipped the letter inside and handed it to her as we said our goodbyes./p
p style="margin-bottom: .14in; line-height: 115%;" /p
p style="margin-bottom: .14in; line-height: 115%;"emDear Dawn,/em/p
p style="margin-bottom: .14in; line-height: 115%;"emI'm sorry I couldn't tell you this is person. I really admire you. I think you're talent beautiful and thoughtful. I think you're brave for going back to like with your Dad./em/p
p style="margin-bottom: .14in; line-height: 115%;"emYou probably think I'm really jealous of you being Mary Anne's best friend and sister. I'm not really. I love Mary Anne and she has enough friendship for everyone, including both you and me. Actually, what I'm really jealous of is Mary Anne. I wish I had met you first. When we both make an effort we have so much fun together. Maybe when you come back we can hang out together, just you and me./em/p
p style="margin-bottom: .14in; line-height: 115%;"emI'm sorry for seeming uncaring and thoughtless. But really, I feel exactly the opposite of all of those things, I just never wanted you to know./em/p
p style="margin-bottom: .14in; line-height: 115%;"emI hope you liked your new bag. I ordered it especially for you./em/p
p style="margin-bottom: .14in; line-height: 115%;"emWith love,/em/p
p style="margin-bottom: .14in; line-height: 115%;"emKristy./em/p
p style="margin-bottom: .14in; line-height: 115%;" /p
p style="margin-bottom: .14in; line-height: 115%;"Despite that, Dawn never wrote back. I never knew why. So we never spent time together, just she and I. And once she moved away, it was as if I didn't exist at all./p
p class="MsoNormal"Things had been so very different, if she had just stayed, here, with the Baby-Sitters / And with me./p
p style="margin-bottom: .14in; line-height: 115%;"I really only bought the book because I had written a letter for Dawn to read once she boarded the plane. I slipped the letter inside and handed it to her as we said our goodbyes./p
p style="margin-bottom: .14in; line-height: 115%;" /p
p style="margin-bottom: .14in; line-height: 115%;"emDear Dawn,/em/p
p style="margin-bottom: .14in; line-height: 115%;"emI'm sorry I couldn't tell you this is person. I really admire you. I think you're talent beautiful and thoughtful. I think you're brave for going back to like with your Dad./em/p
p style="margin-bottom: .14in; line-height: 115%;"emYou probably think I'm really jealous of you being Mary Anne's best friend and sister. I'm not really. I love Mary Anne and she has enough friendship for everyone, including both you and me. Actually, what I'm really jealous of is Mary Anne. I wish I had met you first. When we both make an effort we have so much fun together. Maybe when you come back we can hang out together, just you and me./em/p
p style="margin-bottom: .14in; line-height: 115%;"emI'm sorry for seeming uncaring and thoughtless. But really, I feel exactly the opposite of all of those things, I just never wanted you to know./em/p
p style="margin-bottom: .14in; line-height: 115%;"emI hope you liked your new bag. I ordered it especially for you./em/p
p style="margin-bottom: .14in; line-height: 115%;"emWith love,/em/p
p style="margin-bottom: .14in; line-height: 115%;"emKristy./em/p
p style="margin-bottom: .14in; line-height: 115%;" /p
p style="margin-bottom: .14in; line-height: 115%;"Despite that, Dawn never wrote back. I never knew why. So we never spent time together, just she and I. And once she moved away, it was as if I didn't exist at all./p
p class="MsoNormal"Things had been so very different, if she had just stayed, here, with the Baby-Sitters / And with me./p