Your mother and I have been talking, and we know we should probably put the money I’m getting into fixing a few things around the house, or replacing our rattletrap of a car, or beefing up your college funds. They’re going to publish his novel, the one he’s been working on for years. Two weeks ago, he got a call from a publisher in New York. Your mother and I have a surprise for you, he told my brother and me.Īnother one? I asked. I only found out about it myself an hour ago, at breakfast. Of course I’ll be sad to leave Concord, and all of my friends, especially her. The thing is, I really want Jess to be happy for me, the way I was for her last year when she got the scholarship to Colonial Academy. Wouldn’t you want to go, if you were me? I ask softly. I knew that breaking the news to my best friend would be hard, but I didn’t know it was going to be this hard. Just for a year! It might as well be forever! What do you mean, you’re moving to England? ‘I often think,’ said she, ‘that there is nothing so bad as parting with one’s friends. I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!
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