Love, Rosie (118 page)

them
yourself.
Tell
them
of
your
lifelong
dream
to
take
the
job
that
you
have

been
offered
and
if
they
are
unselfish
people
they
will
understand
your
desire

to
move
to
Cork.
My
popcorn’s
ready
so
I
better
leave.
I’m
already
missing

the
first
of
this
evening’s
entertainment.
I’m
watching
your
friend
Ruby’s
life

tonight.
Good
luck
with
the
family.

Dear
Mum
&
Greg,

Don’t
worry
about
us
Mum,
me
and
Toby
will
be
OK.
We
have
run

away
because
we
don’t
want
to
be
away
from
each
other.
He
is
my
best

friend
and
I
don’t
want
to
move
to
Cork.
Please
don’t
make
us
leave
Mum.

Love,

Katie
and
Toby

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:

to
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subject
:

Rosie

Ruby

Re:
God

Cecelia
Ahern

I
couldn’t
help
noticing
that
God
logged
on
under
your
name
yesterday.

If
you
see
him
around
please
tell
him
that
if
he’s
looking
for
drama,
he

should
tune
into
my
family
today.

part
3

8

chapter
26

k

Dear
Alex,

I
was
so
happy
when
I
finally
got
around
to
shutting
the
door
on
this

horrible
day.
“It’s
only
a
job,”
Greg
said.
Well
if
a
job
is
so
unimportant

then
why
is
he
so
adamantly
refusing
to
leave
his
own?
It’s
not
only
a
job

though.
So
they
offered
me
a
promotion,
but
with
it
they
offered
me
confi-

dence
and
a
little
bit
of
self-belief.
To
believe
that
my
hard
work
was
being

rewarded
and
I
was
seen
as
competent
and
smart.

But
this
time
I
wasn’t
even
given
the
choice
to
screw
it
up
myself.
That

decision
was
made
for
me.
Katie
won’t
leave
Toby
and
I’m
not
quite
hating

Greg
enough
to
storm
off
to
Cork
in
a
huff
on
my
own.
Although,
I’m
pretty

close
to
it.
God
does
that
man
make
my
blood
boil!
Everything
is
always
so

black
and
white
to
him.

In
his
opinion,
he
has
a
great
job
here
that
pays
well
and
I
have
a
good

job
that
pays
OK.
Why
on
earth
would
he
want
to
move
to
a
city
where
his

wife
will
have
a
brilliant
job
and
earn
great
money?
Oh
of
course,
I
forgot

they
don’t
have
any
banks
in
Cork
so
there’s
no
way
he
could
ever
find
a
job

or
be
transferred.
People
just
save
money
under
their
beds
in
shoeboxes

there.

Plus
everything
(well
a
lot
of
things,
like
houses
for
one)
is
cheaper
down

there
than
it
is
here.
Katie
would
be
able
to
begin
her
first
year
of
secondary