by Katie Mcgreal

Created on: June 30, 2010

Dear Mina,

I know I shouldn’t be telling you this via email but you won’t pick up the phone or Skype and I don’t know what else to do. I know it’s been a long time...5 years, four months and three days to be exact but who’s counting...

And I know you’re angry and you have every right to be, I’m not excusing what I did but Mina, I can’t do this without you! I need my best friend at my wedding...that’s right, I’m getting married. I still can’t believe the I in that phrase is me! Can you believe it?

His name is Jack, I’ve known him for nearly 5 years and dated him for...less then a week. Okay, I’ll start at the beginning.

He had been here at Sychamore Community for 3 months before I got here. I didn’t talk to him or even meet him properly until after nearly 8 months.

‘But if we keep losing money the way we are then we won’t be able to stay a float,’ a tall, dark-haired gentleman said sitting beside me.

‘But the chickens barely cost us anything anyway. If we’re going to have to cut back wouldn’t it make more sense to get rid of the horses?’ I said.

‘The horses are too valuable,’

‘So we would make a lot from selling them,’

‘Frank isn’t going to let them go,’ the man replied, ‘Besides we can use them to bring in money, horse riding and the like.’

‘That’s not a bad idea,’ I said looking at him properly for the first time, ‘Eh, I don’t think we’ve been formally introduced. I’m Liz.’

‘Jack,’ he said shaking my hand.

We used to meet a lot in the rec room . His mother is Filipino and his father is French. So he speaks both Tagalog and French but he grew up in Germany so he speaks German fluently as well as English. When he first told me this I felt very inadequate with my English and college French. To be honest, I don’t think we have very much in common at all but he’s really nice and he has insisted that I improve my music tastes and I know you’ll be glad to hear that. I’m sure Annie and Michelle have told you that there are a lot of mountains and hiking trails around here, with some spectular views so we hike together a lot.

We were just really good friends for the first 3 years and then suddenly we started spending a lot more time together.  We flirted a bit at first and then a lot more. We were so bad

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