Chapter III: Two Plans 

            Amy looked at the last sentence Pete wrote.  Apparently, he had felt so bad in how long it took him to return her first letter that he wrote her almost every day since.  The only days he missed was when he traveled to Hawaii.  Actually, he did manage to write on those travel days, he just mailed them all upon his arrival. But according to that last sentence she read, that was all about to end.  This was her third time reading his latest letter.

            “Amelia,” he wrote. When he called her by her birthname, she knew he was about to tell her something serious.  She had explained to him that she was actually named after her mother Amelia but it was too painful for her father to call her that.  So, she had become Amy. Everyone called her Amy ever since she could remember but she liked the name Amelia. Whenever Pete addressed her as Amelia, it helped her feel connected to her mom who died before she had any real memories of her. But Pete only used it on serious occasions and this occasion was no different.  “It looks like I am being shipped to the Philippines.  I won’t bother telling you what little I know about the place since you probably already know more about it than me.  If you don’t now, I am sure you will head to the library and will gather all the information you need.  Maybe you could send me places I should check out there like you did for here?”

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