Dear Mami,
I loved reading your letters! That was a really cool idea you, Mom, and Dad came up with. I know I told you after I read them how much I loved them, but I wanted to let you know again. Since I'm leaving for college next week, I decided to write you a letter. I'm also writing one to Mom, Dad, Lexie, Timmy, and Bethany.
I was reading your letter when you mention the first time you see me and how I was always saying "That's messed up" and how you liked to think it was because I heard you that night. I didn't hear you then, but you told me that story one night when Mom was still working. So, yeah, I did hear it from you, just a few years after you thought I did.
I've had my share of fights with Timmy and Bethany, and all of my parents, but they were always for a good reason and things always ended up better than they were before. I'm your daughter, you fight for what you want and I fight for what I want. I've snuck into the gallery for everyone's surgeries, but yours were always the coolest, I mean, you get to basically use power tools to put people back together.
Did you have a hard time convincing Mom to let me paint my room purple? I never knew that she didn't like that I liked the really dark colors more than the bright, bubbly colors that remind me of her.
I've been thinking a lot about you asking me to not keep secrets about my relationships from you. I've been talking to Henry a lot lately. I know he's a year younger than me and still in high school, but I want you to know. We've just been talking as friends, but seeing him again this summer after not seeing him for a few years, we realized we had a lot in common. I don't think anything will actually end up happening between us, mainly because we're young and it's a long way between Seattle and LA, but no secrets.
I've got a lot of letters to write, so I guess I should keep this short.
Love,
Sofia