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Ruby Wright's avatar

I’m so pleased for maudie! But I’m wondering where she will now go to school and there’s a mawkish curiosity about what happens to Axe. Also I wonder why your letters don’t still survive. I am hoping this is not quite the end of The Drying Rooms…

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Emma Parsons's avatar

Some of your questions are answered in the next chapter, dear Ruby. Including the reason I didn’t use a splendid finale for Axe, like the one you put in an early comment (being put down the laundry chute!) But I don’t have an answer to why my letters didn’t survive. I’m wondering about that too

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Ruby Wright's avatar

Axe scuttling off under a cloud is much better than being pushed down the laundry chute… I await the next chapter with excitement. I am sorry though about your missing letters. I wonder how their existence would have changed this project. Maybe the void of their absence has created the space for you to write this…?

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Angie's avatar

I'm so loving how this unfolds...

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Emma Parsons's avatar

Thank you, Angie.

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Anna Sayburn Lane's avatar

Oh Emma, this brought tears to my eyes. How you must have longed for a happy ending like that. Thank you for sharing your amazing stories.

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Emma Parsons's avatar

And thank you, Anna, for reading them

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George Wright's avatar

O.B

This is so familiar. It reminds me of a letter I sent to my parents from my prep school. In it I wrote that I was going to run away today but the bell went so I couldn’t. Always the rebel!

Xx

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Emma Parsons's avatar

You endured, dear O.B. As so many of us did. And not being a rebel is not the same as being a wimp.

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