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For one week during the summer, Erica and Darren
both had to leave town. They believed it was
lucky that they would leave on the same day and
return within a day of each other. Better for
both to be gone for a week than one gone for a
week then the other gone the next. Still, Erica
and Darren were sure that they would miss each
other, as they had not been a day without each
other since June 1. "It's just a week," Darren's
mom said.
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That week turned out to be one of the longest
weeks ever. Erica made a pack of things for
Darren to read on the plane, which he did. Among
those things, there were seven notes, one for each
day away from each other. With nothing to do at
Donner Lake, Darren looked forward to each new day
when he got to open a new note. For each of these
notes, he wrote one back to Erica. Meanwhile, Erica
was working her butt off on a volleyball court.
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After the week's vacation, Erica and Darren did
not separate from each other for the rest of the
summer. They started Junior year off together,
dreading the worst of the stories that they'd heard.
Although swamped with work from many different
classes, Erica and Darren found time for each other,
and without each other, they would have both gone
insane.
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