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-Ruby

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From:[email protected]

Date: November 16, 2008 1:37p.m.

To:[email protected]

Subject: RE: I’m SorryPart2

Ruby,

That’s not you lying. What’s wrong with living with yourparents?

-Aaron

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From:[email protected]

Date: November 17, 2008 1:02a.m.

To:[email protected]

Subject: SoSorry

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it, but I know people who have told me it’s been time to move out since I was eighteen. But the rent is cheap (I pay the electricity and water bill), and I have my own room and another room I can work in. Plus, my mom still cooks dinner most nights. She doesn’t care I still live at home. I think she prefers it. I promise that’s all I haven’t been upfrontabout.

-Ruby

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From:[email protected]

Date: November 19, 2008 2:42p.m.

To:[email protected]

Subject: RE: I’msorry

Ruby,

Time for you to move out? Why? I’d still live at home if it wouldn’t drive me crazy. Don’t listen to anybody else if you’re happy and like livingthere.

-Aaron

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From:[email protected]

Date: November 20, 2008 3:05a.m.

To:[email protected]

Subject: SoSorry

You’re right. My older brothers and my sister had all moved out by the time they were 18. My oldest brother and sister went to college in Austin, and Jonathan joined the marines. I decided to go to school here in Houston, so I never left. They’re all successful, and I know I shouldn’t compare myself to them, but I do, even knowing it’s dumb to do that. They all tell me I’d be an idiot to move out. I’m happy. For the most part. Usually. I don’t want it to seem like I’mcomplaining.