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Created: 2012-05-28 08:08 Updated: 2012-05-28 08:18 Notebook: Letha F. Swope Stack/Letters
In her classic fashion, she reprimands him for "ordering" her not to write for 10 days (for final examinations) and tell him she will not allow herself to be bossed around by boys in the future.  

Then asks him about the story of Sinhue (shipwrecked sailor) and how he must know this story by heart.

Then she is surprised to discover that he writes stories also and that he must share and confess all he has written, like "The Happy Village"  

She first mentions her story "Wish on a star" and that she currently has four chapters written and hopes to send it to a publisher one day.  

She likes his description of cooking and tells him that he's wrong, she is not a good cook.  [Her mother got a big laugh out of it]

She hated how her mother found her letter and read it to her friends while she was away.  She decides that she'll have to start hiding the letters.

If not a writer, "… someday I may be a United States Ambassador to Egypt and you may one day be Egypt's president." 

Mentions that she's required to take homemaking and hates how dull it is and fails to see the point of the class.

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