Audiobook Excerpt from Best-Selling Author Jenny Han
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EnglishVoice Age
Teen (13-17)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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I like to save things. Not important. Things like whales are people or the environment. Silly things. Porcelain bells, the kind you get at souvenir shops, cookie cutters you'll never use because who needs a cookie cutter in the shape of a foot? Ribbons for my hair love letters Of all the things I save, I guess you could say my love letters are my most prized possession. I keep my letters in a teal hatbox My mom bought me from a vintage store downtown. They aren't love letters that someone else wrote for me. I don't have any of those thes air ones I've written. There's one for every boy I've ever loved, five and all. When I write, I hold nothing back. I write like he'll never read it because he never will. Every secret thought, every careful observation, Everything I've saved up inside me, I put it all in the letter. When I'm done, I seal it, I address it and then I put it in my teal hatbox. They're not love letters in the strict sense of the word. My letters are for when I don't want to be in love anymore. Therefore, goodbye because after I write my letter, I'm no longer consumed by my all consuming love. I can eat my cereal and not wonder if he likes bananas over his cereals to I can sing along to love songs and not be singing them to him. If love is like a possession, maybe my letters are like my exercise ISMs. My letters set me free, or at least they're supposed to.