You get two because little!Amara wants to send him one too.
Little!Amara:
Dear Sanjay,
I'm glad you're going to be my new brother. You're really good at it. I promise I'll do better at school, and try not to get into fights. Even when people call me stupid because I'm behind I'll try my best to be good.
I wish you would let me stay with you. I'm scared to go to my new family. I don't know why people don't want to keep me. Is it because I'm bad? Because I'm going to try to do better. For real this time. I don't want to go to a new foster family. They're just going to send me away again, and I'm scared they're going to hurt me too. It's no fun being scared all the time.
But you said you couldn't, so I guess I'll just have to be tough. I won't let you down. I promise.
I just wanted to thank you for offering me your coat in the cave during the training exercise. It was a very sweet gesture. I also wanted to ask you if you could keep some of the things I told you private. I don't really talk about my childhood, or my brother, and I'm not entirely sure why I told you. Maybe the cold was getting to me or something, but I'd really appreciate you keeping those things to yourself.
I'm sorry I was amused by your... alarm. It was an intense situation, and I shouldn't have laughed. There is nothing wrong with being afraid or alarmed, and we all react differently. I tend to focus better in a crisis, and yes, laugh I guess. I hope you don't think poorly of me for it. I'm glad I was partnered with you, I think it would have been awful without you... or... at least more awful than being cold. I hope we can be friends.
Little Amara would love a hug. She loves her "big brother". Hehe and their conversations are adorable. And Adult Amara felt the need to apologize... though she was seriously amused by him freaking out.
You know I'm horrible at talking about my feelings sober, so I thought I would put it down on paper instead. I've never been happier than I am when I'm with you. My entire life I've always been alone, and I always thought that was how it would always be, but now when I'm with you I find myself thinking about our lives together rather than just mine alone.
It still scares me. Every single time I've let someone get close to me it has ended badly. My mother, the Smiths, my brother. Those relationships from my childhood still haunt me, and while I know you aren't like them, I still find myself holding my breath sometimes, waiting for you to realize what everyone else found so unlovable about me. I don't want this thing between us to end. I've learned I can trust you, and for someone like me, that's a very big deal.
I love you, Leonard, and whatever happens between us, wherever this takes us, I want you to know that.
I don't think I ever thanked you for everything you've done for me. You were always there to offer me encouragement when I was frustrated, and words of wisdom when I needed them. You always took the time to explain things to me, and help me when I needed it, and even taught me why swearing wasn't very lady-like. It always seemed like you believed in me, and that meant more to me than you'll probably ever realize. Where I am today, I owe to you more than anyone else.
I'm getting married soon, and I can't think of anyone else I would like to walk me down the aisle. It would mean the world to me if you would give me away, and I hope you will accept.
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Date: 2011-01-02 05:46 am (UTC)but Sanjay! Feel free to tell him he needs to man up a bit, lol
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Date: 2011-01-02 04:17 pm (UTC)Little!Amara:
Dear Sanjay,
I'm glad you're going to be my new brother. You're really good at it. I promise I'll do better at school, and try not to get into fights. Even when people call me stupid because I'm behind I'll try my best to be good.
I wish you would let me stay with you. I'm scared to go to my new family. I don't know why people don't want to keep me. Is it because I'm bad? Because I'm going to try to do better. For real this time. I don't want to go to a new foster family. They're just going to send me away again, and I'm scared they're going to hurt me too. It's no fun being scared all the time.
But you said you couldn't, so I guess I'll just have to be tough. I won't let you down. I promise.
From,
Mara
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Date: 2011-01-02 04:18 pm (UTC)And grown-up Amara!
Dear Sanjay,
I just wanted to thank you for offering me your coat in the cave during the training exercise. It was a very sweet gesture. I also wanted to ask you if you could keep some of the things I told you private. I don't really talk about my childhood, or my brother, and I'm not entirely sure why I told you. Maybe the cold was getting to me or something, but I'd really appreciate you keeping those things to yourself.
I'm sorry I was amused by your... alarm. It was an intense situation, and I shouldn't have laughed. There is nothing wrong with being afraid or alarmed, and we all react differently. I tend to focus better in a crisis, and yes, laugh I guess. I hope you don't think poorly of me for it. I'm glad I was partnered with you, I think it would have been awful without you... or... at least more awful than being cold. I hope we can be friends.
Sincerely,
Amara
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Date: 2011-01-06 02:11 am (UTC)And from Adult Amara, Sanjay would've folded that up and hid it somewhere in his room for safe keeping.
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Date: 2011-01-06 02:25 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-02 12:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-02 04:58 pm (UTC)Leonard,
You know I'm horrible at talking about my feelings sober, so I thought I would put it down on paper instead. I've never been happier than I am when I'm with you. My entire life I've always been alone, and I always thought that was how it would always be, but now when I'm with you I find myself thinking about our lives together rather than just mine alone.
It still scares me. Every single time I've let someone get close to me it has ended badly. My mother, the Smiths, my brother. Those relationships from my childhood still haunt me, and while I know you aren't like them, I still find myself holding my breath sometimes, waiting for you to realize what everyone else found so unlovable about me. I don't want this thing between us to end. I've learned I can trust you, and for someone like me, that's a very big deal.
I love you, Leonard, and whatever happens between us, wherever this takes us, I want you to know that.
-Mara
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Date: 2011-01-02 10:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-01-04 01:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-09 02:28 am (UTC)Dear Doctor Boyce,
I don't think I ever thanked you for everything you've done for me. You were always there to offer me encouragement when I was frustrated, and words of wisdom when I needed them. You always took the time to explain things to me, and help me when I needed it, and even taught me why swearing wasn't very lady-like. It always seemed like you believed in me, and that meant more to me than you'll probably ever realize. Where I am today, I owe to you more than anyone else.
I'm getting married soon, and I can't think of anyone else I would like to walk me down the aisle. It would mean the world to me if you would give me away, and I hope you will accept.
Love,
Amara
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Date: 2011-02-09 05:27 am (UTC)