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Dear Abilene

You don't know what I have been through since l left you. After I was at the botom of the ocean an old fisherman got me out of the water. I was relieved that I was finally out of the sea. The fisherman brought me to his wife,Nellie. She was nice. You might not believe me but Lolly (Nellie's daughter - a strangename between you and me) threw me into the rubbish and I got taken to the tip. A dog saved me and took me to her master _ a hobo called Bull. A cranky old nut case woman nailed me to a wooden pole. I felt like I'd been crucified, and even worse, crows were making so much noise that I screamed out "No o o !!!

You can find out more in my journal but all I want now is to be home with you.

love

Edward

P.S. please read my journal because it is really good.

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Dear Abilene

I have missed you since our departure. I was at the bottom of the sea for almost a year when a fisherman caught me and brought me back to his wife. After a couple of months their daughter Lolly came and threw me away. After being at the dump a hobo's dog found me. After a couple of nights with him I was found me in a bush by a lady who put me on a pole. A few days later a boy named Bryce took me down he gave me to his sister named Sarah Ruth, sadly she died. After that Bryce and I went busking we got hardly anything. One night Bryce and I went to Neal's diner. Neal, the head chef took me because Bryce didn't pay he smashed my head.

Well that is what the person who fixed me said.

I'm hopping we can meet again.

Edward,Clyde,Jagels,Suzanna,Malone Tulane.

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Dear Abilene,

I have missed you every minute of my journey, I have been all around the world.

Well I have been to the bottom of the deep ocean naked and covered with sea weed. A friendly fisherman came and rescued me.

The most disgusting thing happened when I was thrown in the dump. Suddenly a dog named Lucy came and found me in that dump. She took me to a hobo named Bull.

One night a man kicked me out and then in the morning I found out that I was a scarecrow. I was really afraid and I thought no one will find me. But at 2.00 pm a boy came and pulled me out and took me to his sister. Unfortunately his sister was so sick that she passed away.

I have been given a lot of names such as Susana, Malone, Clyde and Jangles.

I have met so many friends. I have had a really long journey and I am so tired. I wish I could just sleep one whole week.

Love Edward Susana Malone Clyde jangles Tulane.

PS I miss you everyday.

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Dear Abilene,

I have journeyed far and wide around the country side (that rhymed now didn't it) .I have been owned by quite a lot of people - like a fisherman and his wife Nellie, a hobo and his dog and a little boy and girl (sadly the little girl has passed away). All of them have given me a different name, the fisherman and his wife even thought I was a girl! The names I was given were Suzanna, Melonie, Clyde and Jangels. At first I was offended by these names but eventually I learnt to deal with them.

Kind Regards

Edward Suzanna Melonie Clyde Jangels Tulane.

P.S If you do find me make sure you have my pocket watch with you.

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Dear Abilene,

I have traveled so far from you. My name has changed each time I've been handed over to another person. When I was thrown over board from the Queen Mary by those disgraceful boys, I was found by a fisherman and given to his wife, Nelly. Nelly called me Suzanna. Nelly's daughter, Lolly, tossed me in the trash because she was jealous of me. She thought that her parents had replaced her with me. I was then saved by a dog named Lucy who brought me to a hobo called Bull. Bull called me Malone. I traveled a lot with Bull. One night, when we were on a train, I was kicked out of the carriage onto the grass. A crabby old lady made me into a scarecrow. She put me on posts in her garden. She called me Clyde. I was rescued from the posts by a boy called Bryce and given to his sister Sarah Ruth. Sarah Ruth called me Jangles. Sarah Ruth was a little girl about four years old, who wasn't very well. She lived with Bryce in a cottage. She was nice and kind to me. One day Sarah Ruth got worse and she died. I now go busking with Bryce on the streets as a puppet. It is hard work. We only make about a shilling a day. I really want to make Bryce lots of money because I like him. One day I hope I can get back to you, my dearest Abilene, because I now know that I love you most of all.

lots of love Edward

[also known as Suzanna, Malone, Clyde and Jangles]

P.S Do you still have my pocket watch ?

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Dear Abline,

I have missed you so much. I have been on  lots of adventures.

My scariest moment was when I was flung overboard by two disgraceful boys. I was on the bottom of the ocean for almost a year. I saw many different  creatures and fishes. I was so scared when a shark swam towards me.  The sharks black eyes found me in the coral.  I thought the shark will eat me.  But luckilly it left me alone.

There was heaps of creatures and animals I never saw before,like crabs, turtles and eels.

Once a whale swam slowly over me, blocking the light.   I have never seen anything like it. It was a amazing. I couldn't stop looking up at it.  It slowly swam away, singing.  It's song was sad and it made me think of you.

A lot happened since I was under water.  I'm in a shop now and waiting to be repaired.

I miss you so much. I hope you can buy me one day! From Edward Tulane.

P.S Please come and find me.

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My dearest Abilene,

Since our tragic parting I have been in the hands of many others. When I got thrown overboard I was at the bottom of the ocean for nearly a whole year, until I got picked up by a fishing net and got taken home by a fisherman to live with him and his wife Nelly. They called me Suzanna, but my joy of being back with the living was shortly celebrated, as one morning I was thrown out into the dump by Lolly, Nelly's horrible daughter.

I waited for almost a year at that smelly dump, and every morning I would hear a man singing "I'm king of the trash ", until at last I was picked up by a dog called Lucy and I was brought to her master, a hobo called Bull. They called me Maloney. Lucy was in despair when she found out I was not edible. I slept in train carts with Bull and Lucy, but one night I was kicked from the trailer by an angry man.

I waited, and one bright morning and I was found by a cranky old lady. She called me Clyde and nailed my ears to a cross so I could be a scarecrow. She had a little boy Brice working for her, and he took the nails out of my ears and took me to his little sister Sarah, who was very sick and she called me Jangles. Unfortunately she passed away. Brice and I are currently making money by me dancing and him playing the harmonica.

Until I see you again, goodbye.

Yours truly, Edward.

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Dear Abilene

I have missed you very much while I have been on my journey.

I have been on a huge journey since I have been tossed overboard naked by those two disgraceful boys. I have come across many people and their names are Nelli, Bull and his dog Lucy, Sarah Ruth and Bryce. They have all given me different names like Suzanne, Malone, Clyde and Jangles.

On my journey I have been through lots of different emotions like happy, sad, lonely, angry and excited.

When I first met Nelli I was much loved but I was thrown in the bin by Nelli's daughter Lolly. I was taken to the dump. After 127 days I was picked up by a man's dog. Their names were Bull and Lucy. When I met Bull I was loved and wanted. Bull was a hobo. When we stopped to sleep, a man came and kicked me into a forest.I was picked up by an old lady and she named me Clyde. Guess what... she hung me as a scarecrow. It was an awful experience. I was brought down by a boy named Bryce. Bryce handed me to a young little girl named Sarah Ruth. Sarah Ruth was a sweet girl. I was much loved and cared for. The only thing is that Sarah Ruth was very sick. After 6 months she started to cough up blood. Two months after that she stopped breathing.I was very sad when she passed away.

Bryce and his Dad started to argue because she had passed away so Bryce left and took me with him. We started to busk on the streets. We didn't make a shilling all day.

I have missed you very much.

Yours sincerely Edward Tulane

P.S Please come and get me.

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To my dear wonderful friend Abilene,

In the past few years I missed you every second of my mind. When I was thrown overboard I went down to the deep sea for nearly a year! Then a friendly fisherman captured me and took me to his wife's house. When I got there his wife called Nelly looked after me until her daughter Lolly threw me away.

Nelly always thought of me as a girl for some reason and she gave me a girly dress and a girl name. I was called Suzanna but I still liked it. But a few days later Lolly came and she was a nice looking girl but a little mean.

A few days later she saw me on the dining room and held me upside down and threw me in a rubbish dump. It was really sad story about the dump. I got buried in the dump for around a year. Every week the rubbish get heavier, smellier and nastier than usual. But just as I expected A year buried in the dump.

But one day a hobo's dog smelled me out of the garbage and bit me to his owner. At first I was really scared for some point. But it seems like a good man. He introduced him and the dog. The mans name was called Bull and the dog was Lucy. After the introducing he said he can name me Malone. Each day Malone, Lucy and me will sit next to some of Bull's friends in the campfire at night. In the first few days Everyone in the campfire is thinking why Bull is holding a doll. But a few days later the friends will notice about me.

Bull is a really great singer and everyday he will balance me on his left leg and Lucy on the right but not on the leg. But one day on the train a mean person kicked us awake on the train and he was a really mean person and purposely through me down a hill and stopped rolling when my face landed still on the night stars.

'The following day a old granny came walking up to my way and spotted me on the ground and she thought that I was pretty useful to scare crows out of her garden. So she picked me up on the ground and put me in the basket. At first I thought she was really friendly but that changed the second when she hanged me up with two pegs on my right and left ear. It was a really painful job to do scaring the crows away. A few days later I found a boy helping the granny. But he spotted me and he looked at me for a while. But the granny pulls him to work again. After the sun turned half a circle and fell night time. That's when that boy ran to me and took me out of the peg.

Then he took me to a cabin with a badly coughing girl. He introduced himself and his sister. The boy was called Bryce Ruth and his sister was called Sarah Ruth. Then Bryce made a puppet out of me and danced me and Sarah Laughed. After a few months like this Sarah Ruth Passed away badly because of her bad sickness.

So Bryce took me away from the farm and he came too. We arrived at a far away city tying to make money. When we started the show Bryce played his harmonica while dancing me. But as the darkness came we didn't make a single pound. That's when he started crying a little and played his harmonica louder and danced me harder but no one came.

So he gave up and he went to a diner to eat dinner at a diner. But when the bill came he told the counter people he haven't got enough money so the boss came and cracked me to twenty one pieces!!! I was thinking did I die or something. But I woke up at a persons face and he said he was a doll maker and he putted twenty one pieces all the way to one. Then he put me on a shelf. I was looking for Bryce but he was far gone.

I think I'll end like this I had a really good journey but I wish I am with you.

From your great friend Edward Tulane.

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Dear Abilene,

I have missed you so much. Well, my adventures started when those two disgraceful boys threw me OVERBOARD! I was at the bottom of the ocean for about a year before a fisherman caught me in a net. He brought me to his house and gave me to Nellie (his wife). In a couple of weeks Lolly came and threw me in the dump! One day a dog named Lucy found me in the dump and brought me to a hobo named Bull. One night a man kicked me out of a train. In the morning I found out I was a scarecrow. At about 2:00 pm a boy pulled me down and gave me to his sister. His sister died a few years after.

I miss you lots my great friend.

Love Edward Susanna Malone Clyde Jangles Tulane.

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Dear Abilene,

I am very sad to have been parted from you on the ship, after that I was found by a fisherman then I was put in the tip and retrieved by a dog. The dog's owner was a hobo called Bull until I was found by a crabby lady. I was rescued from her by a boy aged of 10 and he gave me to his little sister. She called me Jangles. She was the most adorable girl. Her name was Sarah Ruth who sadly ... spoiler alert ! Whoops you should read the book.

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Dear Abilene,

I am safe and I have been to many places such as the bottom of the ocean, a house owned by a fisherman and his wife, the dump and all over the place with a hobo and a dog called Lucy. I also went to a small house that belonged to a poor family and a doll shop. I was called a lot of things while I was on my journey and my personality and my head has been smashed into a million pieces!!!! I hope that we can be together again.

Your friend, Edward Tulane

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Dear Abilene

Please come find me. I really
miss you and I really want to come home.

When I fell overboard I felt sad,
frightened and scared. When I was in the ocean I was so lonely until I was found by a fisherman.

I have lived with many people
since I left you. I have been with a mother (Nelly) and then also found in the rubbish by a hobo and his dog. I have been found by a lady who hung me up like a scarecrow by my ears. I have also been taken by a boy that gave me to his
sister, Sarah Ruth.

All of these people named me
different names. Since I left you I have not been called Edward. I have been called Suzanna, Malone, Clyde and Jangles.

Right now I am on the street
trying to make Bryce some money by dancing like a puppet. I have strings on my arms and legs and Bryce is playing the harmonica. People are ignoring us and
not giving us any money.

I have had a huge and long
journey so far with some good times and bad times.  I hope we can find each other soon and I really miss you.

Love from Edward Suzanna Malone
Clyde Jangles Tulane

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To my dearest friend Abilene, I have been on many miraculous   journeys since we last met. I have been away from you so long that I feel I need tell you about my travels. I have made and met many new friends. my adventures have been so far are

living with a kind fisherman, his wife and their daughter who rudely threw me in the dump yard.

(Lolly) strange name for a human I agree, picked up from the dump by a dog who obediently took me to a strange hobo named Bull, then I was found by a crabby old lady who made a scarecrow out of ME!!!!!!!!!!

Then I was un nailed by a little boy named Bryce who took me to his little sister Sarah who was sick and very unwell. After a week or so she passed away  so now Bryce and I are roaming the streets busking for money.I am now  a bunny rabbit puppet.

I miss you dearly  Abilene I hope we meet again soon, kindest regards

Edward, Suzanna, Maloney, Jangles  ClyTulane.

P.S you are still forever in my heart.

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Dear Abelene,

I have travelled over the whole world and have had my name changed many many times. Suzana, Maloney, Jangles and Rabbit. Many have taken me in such as Bryce and Sarah Ruth (Who has sadly died), Nellie and Bull and Lucy. Since have last seen you, I have figured out I am like the beautiful princess in your grandma's story. I now have a heart, and sorry I did not love you when you had me. Right now I am with Bryce controlling me dancing on the street earning few shillings a day.

Your dearest love, Edward Tulane

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Dear Abilene

Remember when those naughty boys threw me over board I was in the sea for nearly a year. A fisher man found and brought me to his house. He had a wife Nelli who was really nice but her daughter took me to the dump. I have met lots of people. Nelly, Lolly, Lucy(a dog) and Bull(a hobo), and Sarah Ruth and Bryce. My adventure with Sarah and Bryce was sad and I will tell you why now. Bryce got me and brought me to her very sick sister Sarah Ruth. She got worse and worse and then she passed away. It was very sad and her father took her to put in the grave.

I have been called lots of different names. Nelly called me Suzana, Bull called me Milone, Sarah Ruth called me jangles.

KInd regards

Edward Tulane

P.S IO miss you heaps

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Dear Abilene,

I miss you ever so much. I have been on lots of adventures for some time now. At one stage I was stuck under a mountain of rubbish at the tip, then I was kicked off a train by a very angry man and separated from all my friends including you. I was made into a scarecrow but then a young boy called Bryce came and rescued me. He brought me back to his old wooden shack to a sweet girl called Sarah Ruth. Unfortunately she was very sick and then passed away. She called me Jangles. I have had many names over the last few years like Suzanna, Maloney and Clyde.

Being apart from you has been very hard. I have been experiencing many types of emotions lately, sadness, neglect, loneliness and love.

I need you. Please come for me.

Your loving friend Edward.

P.S I think of you every day.

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Dear Abelene,

I am currently with Bryce doing tricks on the streets as a puppet to earn money. So far we haven't made a dollar.

After the moment where I was thrown in the ocean, I was captured by a fisherman then passed on to a mother.

The next day I was in the trash can then I was picked up by a hobo's dog.

The hobo was named Bull he accepted me for some more company.

From Edward

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My dear friend Abilene,

I have been on a journey far from you. Since we have parted I've been thinking about you. The worst thing of our tragic parting is when I was thrown into the smelly dump by Lolly( Lolly is Nelly's mean daughter).

I have met a lot of people. I have met Nelly, Lolly, Lucy, Bull (Lucy and Bull are the heroes who saved me from the smelly dump), Sarah Ruth (who regrettably died) and Bryce. Bryce and I are making at least 26 shillings a week by doing puppet shows (I'm the dancing rabbit). I enjoy people watching me dance.

Sarah Ruth was very sweet and her nature was so lovely you could never say something bad about her. It was heartbreaking when she died.

My name has changed so many times. I have been called Edward, Suzanna, (Nelly called me that), Malone, (Bull and Lucy named me that), Clyde, (an old lady called me that), and Jangles, (Sarah Ruth called me that).

I miss you dearly and I was so selfish when I was with you because I only loved myself (like the story your grandmother told us). I was so embarrassed when I was thrown naked in the air from the hands of a dirty, mean, selfish,............... Maybe I should stop there.

From your loving friend,

Edward Tulane.

P.S. I wish you were here.

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Dear Abilene

During the last 5 months I have been traveling around the world. My worst experience was probably when my ears got nailed to a pole. But luckily a boy took me down. He brought me to his little sister Sarah since she was sick. Sarah got worse until one day she died. I need your help. I have missed you every second of my life.

Love Edward

P.S BRING MY POCKET WATCH!!!

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Dear Abilene

I miss you my dear freind. I have been through a lot of experiences. I have been named a lot of times . I have been down in the dump nearly a year.

Regards Tulane jangles Sussanne and Malone.

P.s I really miss you.

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Dear Abilene I miss you so much now I realise I love you I've been thrown in a garbage bin,picked up by the ears met new people but I've changed my emotions I hope I see you soon.

From Edward tulane

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Dear Abilene,

My dear Abilene oh how I have missed you. On my journey I have encountered manny ups and downs. My dear little friend miss Sarah Ruth passed away because off sickness and I met a very kind wanderer named Bull which he had a dog called Lucy. My emotions have changed through out this time to things like sad, worried, missed, and even some LOVE. I hope I may see you again one day. Please come get me I am with Bryce.

From dear Edward, Suzana, Milone, Jangles Tulane

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I'm looking forward to reading your class's letters to Abilene.<br>