...sunrises that look like this when i wake up on the day when i've missed home the most so far this semester.
it's hard to be gone on a holiday like this. not only do i really miss the great food, but i miss being with my family, sleeping in my own bed for a week, and putzing around Oxford waiting for something to happen.
however, i'm grateful, of course, to be here. and in less than three weeks (ah!) i'll be back in Oxford, probably bored, and eating great food and spending time with my family.
and i don't want things to stop while i'm gone. i'll be back soon enough, and i know life has been going on without me thus far. it's something i have to get used to -- there's only so much more time i have to wake up in that bright orange room every morning.
and i've had so many experiences, so many ups and downs, so many things that i'll never be able to explain to all of you at home, whether you wanted to hear them or not. so i can have that, and life at home can be the same as well.
so it's ok, stephani, put up the christmas tree. i don't need to hang ornaments this year.
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...that was lovely!....and the tree is up, but the ornaments have your name on them....
i love you!
mom
kati,
someday, when you have your own family, you will truly understand what it feels like to by your aunt - and to have watched a little girl grow into an beautiful woman from a birds eye view and to be so utterly amazed at her heart from 1/2 a world away that I feel as if you are sitting here with me. I love you. AB
this is awful. please never talk to me again, i dislike you even more.
just kidding. kati, you need to write a book or at least a short story sometime soon. i say "kati" because i'm serious.
you are the female version of yann martel. book club when you get back.
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