Love, Rosie (130 page)

Humor
me.

OK
.
.
.
oh
look
Rosie,
it’s
“slutty
Bethany”
in
the
paper
with
Alex.

On
page
three.
Looking
.
.
.
em
.
.
.
slutty.

So
I
see.
Anyway
she’s
32
.
.
.
My
star
sign
said
that—

A-ha!
I
told
y—

Oh
shut
up
with
the
“I
told
you
so’s”
and
listen.
My
star
sign
said

that
I
would
feel
light
relief
but
with
a
strange
twist
of
fate.

And
.
.
.
?
Mine
tells
me
I’m
rich,
so
what?

Well
I’m
delighted
that
Alex
has
finally
got
the
job
of
his
dreams

that
he
has
wanted
for
so
many
years,
but
it’s
just
ironic
that
it
was

her
he
had
to
meet
to
get
it.

Ruby:

I
told
you
to
expect
the
unexpected
Rosie,
and
to
stop
paying
atten-

tion
to
those
horoscopes
.
.
.
they’re
a
load
of
crap.

from
:

to
:

subject
:

Rosie

Alex

Congratulations!

Heard
about
your
good
news.
You’ve
made
it
into
every
newspaper
over

here
today
(I’ve
kept
all
the
press
cuttings
for
you),
and
I
heard
you
speaking

on
the
radio
this
morning.
I’m
not
quite
sure
exactly
what
you
were
talking

about,
but
you
sounded
like
you’ve
got
a
cold.
So
you
can
practically
bring

people
back
from
the
dead
but
you
can’t
get
rid
of
the
sniffles.

How’s
Josh?
I
rang
your
mother
the
other
day
and
he
was
over
with
her

for
the
weekend.
She
put
Josh
on
the
phone
and
I
can’t
believe
I
could
actu-

ally
have
a
conversation
with
him!
He’s
a
very
intelligent
four-year-old
just

like
his
dad
was,
absolutely
nothing
like
his
mum.
He
was
telling
me
all

about
the
animals
he
had
seen
at
the
zoo
and
proceeded
to
make
the
noise
of

every
single
one
of
them.
I
suggested
to
your
mother
that
she
work
on
the

gorilla
sound
with
him
as
he
wasn’t
saying
anything,
but
she
informed
me

that
the
gorilla
is
so
depressed
he
just
sits
in
his
cage
and
doesn’t
make
a

sound.
So
Josh
is
an
impressionist
too
as
well
as
a
clever
clogs.

200

Cecelia
Ahern

I
would
love
to
see
him
again
sometime;
I
would
love
to
see
you.
We

need
to
catch
up
on
each
other’s
lives.
Tell
me
something
about
yourself
that

the
papers,
television,
and
radio
can’t
tell
me.

Dear
Alex,

Rosie
here
again.
I’m
not
quite
sure
if
you
got
my
e-mail
a
few
weeks

ago.
I
just
was
congratulating
you
on
your
fantastic
news.
We’re
all
so
proud