Stage Presents
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Speaking of, I knew you’d ace everything. Your 4.0 GPA is safe and sound. I don’t know why you were so worried. You’re super smart and the hardest working person I know. I’m lucky that I managed the 3.6. I wish it were better, but I can’t complain. And I’m still on honor roll, since I got higher than 3.5. I’m transferring everything over now. It’s funny to think that starting this September I’ll officially be a student at the University of Central Florida. And I’m so lucky I qualify for financial aid—I really, really don’t want to go into debt, you know? Especially if I want to run a business one day. I’ll have plenty of debt then! Kidding. I hope.
Anyway. Back to the important part of this email: one more week!! I can’t wait to see you. I miss you.
~*~Ashlee
Hi Ashlee,
Thanks for sending me your schedule. I appreciate you moving your days off around so we can spend more time together.
Haha, yeah, I don’t know how much I want to walk around Disney without you, but I might visit the Studios for some nostalgia. We should see Fantasmic together. If you want to. And who knows—maybe one day you’ll be on that barge at the end waving at people. For the most part I do think I’m going to just hole up in my room at the resort. Sleep. Watch brain candy. Not study a language for a couple days.
A 3.6 really isn’t bad, I keep telling you. And it was enough to get that merit scholarship. That’s what’s important. The less you have to pay for school the better. Though I think a business major and a dancing minor is probably one of the weirder combinations your school might have. But it’s great that so many of your classes transfer over, including the dance ones. I know you’ll do great.
And I’ll get to tell you that in person soon. I can’t wait to see you.
One more week.
-Dana
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By Aidan Wayne
Showers, Flowers, and Fangs
Stage Presents
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