Love, Rosie (96 page)

me.
I’m
fine.
Thank
you,
thank
you,
thank
you,
for
caring
about
me
so

much.
There
aren’t
enough
friends
like
you
in
the
world.

love,
rosie

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Alex

Rosie

Re:
Greg

And
that’s
all
I
wanted.
For
you
to
be
happy.

Dear
Stephanie,

So
how’s
the
new
mummy?
I
hope
you’re
coping
well
with
everything.
I

know
it’s
a
big
change—but
a
wonderful
one.
Are
you
getting
any
sleep?
I

hope
you
are.
I
always
knew
you
would
be
a
fabulous
mother,
you
always

knew
just
how
to
take
care
of
your
baby
sister.

Thanks
for
all
the
gory
details
about
his
birth
by
the
way.
You’re
even

more
wonderful
than
I
thought
you
were!
And
no,
I
don’t
want
Pierre
to

send
over
his
video
tape
of
the
“magical”
experience.
Remember
they
used

to
show
us
those
videos
at
school
when
we
were
kids
to
scare
us
all
out
of

having
sex?
Well
neither
of
us
were
obviously
that
scared.
If
they
really

wanted
to
deter
us
they
should
have
just
shown
us
the
nappy-changing
pro-

cedure.
That
would
have
sent
us
running
off
in
our
thousands
to
the
convent.

You
all
looked
so
happy
together
in
the
photograph.
You
looked
like
the

perfect
family.
Is
there
such
a
thing
anymore
because
if
there
is,
my
happy

little
unit
was
definitely
not
in
the
queue
when
they
were
handing
out
the

titles.

I’m
really
not
sure
if
I
have
done
the
right
thing
by
taking
Greg
back.

It’s
so
difficult
to
know
what
decision
to
make.
Christ,
Stephanie,
I
was

always
the
first
person
to
shout
out
that
if
my
husband
was
unfaithful
there

would
be
no
way
I
would
ever
take
him
back
in
a
million
years.
I
always
said

that
was
the
one
thing
I
could
never
forgive
(well,
that
and
abandoning
your

unborn
child),
so
what
am
I
doing,
taking
him
back?

What
am
I
doing,
allowing
him
to
sleep
beside
me
in
bed?
Why
am
I

cooking
him
dinner
and
calling
him
when
it’s
on
the
table?
This
is
not
what
I

said
I
would
do.
I
need
all
my
strength
to
stop
myself
from
reaching
out
and

slapping
him
across
the
face
every
time
he
smiles
at
me.

I
thought
that
sending
him
packing
would
be
the
easiest
thing
in
the

world
to
do,
but
part
of
the
reason
for
taking
him
back
was
because
I

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Cecelia
Ahern

couldn’t
face
doing
it
all
by
myself
again.
I
just
kept
imagining
me
and
Katie