How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr

Author:Sara Zarr [Zarr, Sara]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Hachette Book Group
Published: 2011-10-17T16:00:00+00:00

Dear Alex,

I think by now you must be back home and have gotten my letters. This time I’m enclosing a self-addressed stamped envelope. I know sometimes you have the idea to write to someone or call them, but it’s too much trouble to look up an address and a phone number, especially these days when we do everything on the computer. I do have an e-mail address that I don’t use very much. Someone I used to know, his name was Kent, was on the computer all the time, practically addicted to it. I don’t want to miss out on important things because of needing to check something on the computer all the time. Also, I think handwritten letters are more personal. My hand is on this pen writing on this paper, and when you get this paper, you’ll know I touched it, and you’ll touch it, and it’s a connection.

Well, not to sound so serious. It sure is different being here from living my old life back in Omaha! Did I tell you that I used to be an administrative assistant? It was only about twelve hours a week, for my mother’s boyfriend’s construction company. A little bit of filing and answering the phone and things. When I leave here, I might look for that kind of a job again.

In my last letter I know I said that my future is a blank. I didn’t want you to think I’m dumb, that I haven’t thought about it at all. I have some money. Or I will have. I would never have left Omaha without a plan, including a plan for if I decide giving up my baby is the wrong thing. Not that I would, but you always need a plan. One of my mother’s boyfriends, not the one with the construction company, liked to say motivational quotes. “Failure to plan is planning to fail.” And things like that.

So you can use the envelope in here to write to me. All you need is a piece of paper and a pen or pencil. I bet you have that around somewhere.

Yours truly,

Mandy (from the train)

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