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Hi, GK!

“Hi Again” seemed like the right topic under which to post… Not sure if you remember me. I first wrote to you when I was in Grade 7, I think… Maybe 8? A hundred years ago, when I was writing a speech about my favourite author at the time, Gordon Korman. To my delight, you wrote back, and a penpalship of several years ensued. I must have written by hand; your letters arrived in my mailbox on neatly typed, small cream coloured paper. Sometimes light blue. I was always delighted. I still have those letters somewhere… where are they? In some box. Yikes. The trouble with getting old, haha (I’m 52 now).

I’ve been semi-retired from a successful and fulfilling teaching career for a few years now, and am living in PEI, where I was doing — among other things — the odd substitute teaching gig. This morning was my final day as a substitute teacher, and in a Grade 6 class I happened to be covering, what did my eyes behold? Five copies of “Go Jump in the Pool”!!! While the students were playing board games, I indulged and reread the first several chapters — that $h!t is as funny now as it was the first time I read it 40 years ago, lol!

Thanks, friend, for making me laugh then (lord knows, 12-year-old me needed it!!!), and thank you for making me laugh now. I hope you are well. I see you are still writing.

Always a fan,

Vera 🙂