TO ALL MY YOUNG FRIENDS IN HONG KONG

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30th MarchDear Friends,

  Your letter was like warm sunshine in my mailbox. It is a wet day here in New Zealand. The thirsty garden is drinking the rain, and the cats come into the house with wet fur. Have you ever had a wet cat on your lap? It is not very comfortable. A little while ago, my big tabby cat, Grace, sat on my desk and dried herself on a heap of letters. Grace’s wet fur has made the paper squishy and the ink blurred. Some of those letters were from my friends in Hong Kong.

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Paragraph 2I often think of the young

people I met in Hong Kong. You all have very beautiful smiles. I carry your smiles in my memory. When I feel tired or sad, I remember your faces. Your smiles make a little light go on inside me. Thinking about your smiles makes me smile. That’s the good thing about smiles. They get passed on, even across great distances, and they make a lot of people happy.

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Paragraph 3 I miss Hong Kong. Apart from all my friends, I miss the wonderful food you have in Hong Kong. I try to make Cantonese food here, but it’s not the same. What is your favourite food? I like dumplings and also chicken rice.

 

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  My cats send you lots of purrs, and I send you love from New Zealand.

Your friend, Auntie Joy

Paragraph 4, 5I have many favourites, but I

do not wish to eat mice! My cats don’t know this. Sometimes they think I look hungry and they try to feed me. I find a dead mouse on my desk or on the floor by my bed. I say thank you to the cat, then I put the mouse in the garbage. No, I couldn’t eat a mouse, not even if it was covered in chocolate.

THE END

a mailbox

a wet day

thirsty

a heap of letters

squishy paper

the ink blurred

on your lap

a big tabby cat

garbage

mice

covered in chocolate