14. Letter from One Pen Pal to Another

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To My Pen Pal:

Happy New Year! I hope this letter reaches you in time! How are you and your family spending the day? Usually, we get a lot of guests on holidays, so I’ll probably spend most of it doing chores around the inn. From here, we can see the fireworks over ███████ City. They’re so beautiful! I wish you could come see them. 

In your last letter, you mentioned that you went to the cherry blossom festival by Lake Acamar when you were younger. I’ve never gotten to go myself, but there’s plenty of cherry trees right outside the inn! They don’t grow naturally in the ███████ Forest, so I’m sure it’s not as nice as it is out by the lake. At least we get to have a plum festival every year!

I need to get back to work, but first I wanna say that it’s really sweet of you to keep writing me these letters for so many years! Out here, I don’t have a ton of friends. It’s kind of sad to think that we won’t be able to keep doing this after we graduate in two years. I know you’ve said before that the program doesn’t give out information to former students, but I still have hope that we’ll be able to find each other and keep being friends after it’s over! This is my New Year’s wish: please keep believing in our friendship!

Love,

Your Pen Pal ♡