Dear Camila,
When I was younger I hated reading. I despised it. I thought that reading was such a waste of my time and that every story ever told through a book was stupid. But when I met you, I changed my mind. You would read me books when I came over to your house and I would listen closely because each word that dripped from your mouth was like the greatest poem ever written.
I especially loved the books that you wrote yourself. You wrote a book a long time back when you first met me. I remember you reading it to me when I came over one day. I had been so upset with an old best friend from school when she told me off. I came over and cried, but you took out your book and read me to sleep. I dreamed of that book after I fell asleep. It was truly a piece of art work.
Since you graduated with a master's degree in English, you had a job for a while as an elementary English teacher. You were so good at it too.
I dropped by during the day once because it was your birthday and I wanted to surprise you. I went to astore and bought you a dozen red roses along with a large yellow strawberry flavored cake for you toshare with the class. I stopped just outside of your class and watched you read a children's book to the kids. You looked so good teaching them and so happy. It kind of made me hope that one day we could have children of our own. We were still young, Barely 25, so I shook those thoughts from my mind andcontinued to watch before walking in and surprising you.
You often spent your free time writing poems, stories, songs etc. One day you competed in a poetry contest and you won. It was a poem about me.
Some guy came up to you after the reading and offered you a job as an author, and you happily said yes. So you spent even more hours cooped up in our room, writing all sorts of stories. Your books sold very slowly but they made good money. You mostly wrote children's book but it seemed like kids loved it.
You wrote a book about a little girl named Sofia who found a handsome man and went off to live happily ever after with him. It was something that Sofia would never know. She would never fall in love or be kissed like she was important to him or her. She would never live happily ever after in a home forever. Her story was doomed before it even began.
That book sold the most. It quickly became a children's favorite. You cried when it won the Nobel peaceprize. It spread the word about being safe on the road, and I truly believe it made a difference to the kids who ever read the story.
Sincerely,
Lauren Jauregui
