Invasion by Walter Dean Myers

Author:Walter Dean Myers
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
Published: 2013-10-15T04:00:00+00:00

Dear Vernelle,

I guess I’m not supposed to tell you exactly where I am. Even if I do, the censors will probably black it out. Anyway, I’m thinking about you a lot and wondering if you ever think of me. There’s no reason for you to think about me, except, maybe, I need somebody to have me on their mind.

Most of the things I want to say to you don’t have a connection. At least there’s nothing that I can say that connects with anything I’ve ever done or said to you. That’s pretty pathetic. But I’m going to say some things anyway in this letter. Please don’t let them bother you too much. Just think they are the ramblings (I like that word) of a lonely soldier.

Vernelle, I spent last winter in New York City on the Lower East Side. The apartments there are so old you wouldn’t believe it. In the place I stayed, the bathtub was in the kitchen. It was covered with a slab of wood that I used as a table. I’d put my easel on the tub and draw what I saw out the window. Sometimes, on cold nights, it would be freezing in that apartment, and I would be lying there shivering and alone and wishing I had someone there with me. Now I wish that someone was you.

There’s noise coming from down the road, and so I’ll

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