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3/22/13
The Missing Girl I saw Gatsby walk across his freshly cutgrass and on to my over grown, weed infested, disordered mess I call my lawn. He made his way to my door. When I answered it he said cheerfully “Hello old sport would you like to come to my place and have a drink”. I would love to I said. Once we got to his estate we took a seat on his handcrafted cathedra. We started to talk about the war we both served in together. He had spoken about how he had meet Daisy before the war and how they had loved each other. “Old sport once I got drafted to the army we wrote to each other every agonizing lonely day. The letters would come in and go out at a constant flow. She would always express her love and her desire to me to return at any moment. After a while the letters came back slowly and soon enough she had stopped replying. I replied with a troublesome affection. He went on, but one day I had gotten a letter. I was so exited it was from Daisy; I couldn’t wait to see what she had said to me and what was going on in her life. At that moment his face was absent of any amusement, he said. But once I opened the letter she had said, “Gatsby how I have missed you I had written you a letter but it had gotten ruined in a bathtub so here I go I will try again. Since you’ve been gone I have meet someone else. His name is Tom. We had a baby girl named Pammy. She is the cutest thing. I love you Gatsby I just couldn’t wait knowing that you could die at any moment or think the war would never end. So I had to move on.” As I looked against Gatsby I noticed that there was a shine in his eye and a drop falling down his cheek. At that time I also noticed that Gatsby was reading the actual letter and as I was looking he was folding it so precise and placed it back into his pocket. He wiped his tears and looked at me and said, “You know old sport I still love this girl, she stole my heart”. I didn’t want to be rude but I had to use the restroom. Gatsby said we would meet in the library. Once we got to the library Gatsby had shown me an old book. He said it was his favorite book it was called Romeo and Juliet. He said that he was Romeo and Daisy was Juliet and that some day they would be together. After he had looked through the book he placed it back just as he had found it. He asked if I wanted to go on the hydroplane. I couldn’t refuse a good time to go have fun. As we were walking to the docks Gatsby all of a sudden stopped and he had looked as if he had seen a ghost and ran to the house. As I was going to walk back I had heard the sound of a speedboat coming closer and closer. As I turned I saw Daisy coming toward me. I walked to greet her and she parked her boat at Gatsby’s docks and came to me. We walked to Gatsby’s house and started to search for Gatsby. We looked for a good ten minutes. All of a sudden Gatsby appeared and looked like he had taken a shower and got his Sunday best on. They were happy to see each other you could tell by their eyes locked in with one another never leaving each other’s stare. You could tell there was still something between them a fire that couldn’t be blown out. You could tell Daisy longed for his affection and wondered often what her life would be like if she had waited for Gatsby. I left them alone and walked away, as I strolled through the back yard I thought of something, Daisy’s daughter. Come to think of it she looked nothing like Tom. Gatsby had just mentioned Pammy in the letter, was Pammy his? He loved that little girl or so it seemed and Tom had no regard to her, this could be his chance to make Daisy his girl. As the day went to night I returned they had been in the library laughing and enjoying each other’s company. Once I had retuned daisy had realized the time and hurried of to her boat to get home. Gatsby went to return to his bed with a huge smile on his face and felt like the most powerful man in the world.
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