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Hi, Sharon,

Your letter touched me deeply. It is lovely, and even exciting to me to know that your girls pretty much walked in Dexter’s shoes! (Your Veterans’ home must have been awash in Swiss Army Knives!) And how sad to be cut off for so long from their Vet friends, and to be unable to say goodbye to those who passed on during that terrible time of quarantine.

You may have only had “one shot” at being a Mom, but you seem to have given your girls a full taste of what it means to love and to serve others. That is pretty good mothering in my book!

Thank you so much for telling me this story. It adds a dimension to OLD SCHOOL that I barely understood existed!

                                               Kindest regards,                                                —–Gordon Korman—–