Dear St. Johns/New York,
You KNOW I love you and I want to be with you, always and forever ♥ but you don't give me love back in return. I need a place to stay if I'm going to go to school there and apparently it's too late.
Ohio on the other hand, is confessing their devotion to me pretty much weekly! Now you're pretty much perfection for me, but Ohio is second best, and if you're not willing to welcome me with open arms, I'm gonna move on and go with Ohio.
It's still essentially what I want: real weather, real seasons and real, diverse people. Ohio is ready for the commitment and is allowing me a place to live, so sorry NY/St. John's, I hope maybe in the future we can be together when we're both more mature and wiser, and me, richer. (WHICH WE WILL, WE'RE MEANT TO BE AND YOU KNOW THAT!)
-Ohio is for Lovers
Dear Mr. Stovall,
Why haven't you written back to my email? It's not exactly like you. This is really worrying me. I know I hadn't spoken to you in about a year and all of a sudden I'm asking you for a recommendation letter, but PLEEEEEEEEEEEEASE respond to me, even if it's to tell me you can't write the letter.
But I seriously hope you can. I don't know who else to ask! You're the only one who knows me completely and exactly as who I am. You're like the father I always wish I had (though I do love the two I have, they're flawed). No one else knows my work ethic AND my personality. With other extra curriculars, they didn't know me for who I was. With you I was able to open up completely and trust you and you knew so much about me, you understood me; you know what kind of person I am and know what I go through at home, and you knew how much I added onto my plate at school. Only you saw me at my weakest (well, until the summer after high school, that was a whole new low), and you saw me at my best. You know me better than any family member knows me, I only trust you to tell the people of Ohio about me.
Of the many, many teachers I've had since Pre-K, you're one of the two that I will ALWAYS remember and owe my entire BEING to. (The first was one of my 5th grade teachers, Mrs. Flores, who introduced me to Harry Potter and thus changed my entire life forever ♥ ). Without you (or her) I honestly wouldn't be where who I am today. Please, I can't do this without you.
Love,
The 2007-2008 Reveille Editor
It was so much more than that.