Misha<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t help but smile at the words in her letter. She misses me.<\/p>\n
In fifth grade, my teacher set us up with pen pals from a different school. Thinking I was a girl, with a name like Misha, the other teacher paired me up with her student, Ryen. My teacher, believing Ryen was a boy like me, agreed.<\/p>\n
It didn\u2019t take long for us to figure out the mistake. And in no time at all, we were arguing about everything. The best take-out pizza. Android vs. iPhone. Whether or not Eminem is the greatest rapper ever\u2026<\/p>\n
And that was the start. For the next seven years, it was us.<\/p>\n
Her letters are always on black paper with silver writing. Sometimes there\u2019s one a week or three in a day, but I need them. She\u2019s the only one who keeps me on track, talks me down, and accepts everything I am.<\/p>\n
We only had three rules. No social media, no phone numbers, no pictures. We had a good thing going. Why ruin it?<\/p>\n
Until I run across a photo of a girl online. Name\u2019s Ryen, loves Gallo\u2019s pizza, and worships her iPhone. What are the chances?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Misha<\/p>\n
I can\u2019t help but smile at the words in her letter. She misses me.<\/p>\n
In fifth grade, my teacher set us up with pen pals from a different school. Thinking I was a girl, with a name like Misha, the other teacher paired me up with her student, Ryen. My teacher, believing Ryen was a boy like me, agreed.<\/p>\n
It didn\u2019t take long for us to figure out the mistake. And in no time at all, we were arguing about everything. The best take-out pizza. Android vs. iPhone. Whether or not Eminem is the greatest rapper ever\u2026<\/p>\n
And that was the start. For the next seven years, it was us.<\/p>\n
Her letters are always on black paper with silver writing. Sometimes there\u2019s one a week or three in a day, but I need them. She\u2019s the only one who keeps me on track, talks me down, and accepts everything I am.<\/p>\n
We only had three rules. No social media, no phone numbers, no pictures. We had a good thing going. Why ruin it?<\/p>\n
Until I run across a photo of a girl online. Name\u2019s Ryen, loves Gallo\u2019s pizza, and worships her iPhone. What are the chances?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[19,20,36],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-454","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-fiction","product_cat-mystery-thriller","product_cat-young-adult","desktop-align-left","tablet-align-left","mobile-align-left","first","instock","sale","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookwindow.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookwindow.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookwindow.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookwindow.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookwindow.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bookwindow.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookwindow.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_brand&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookwindow.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_cat&post=454"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bookwindow.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fproduct_tag&post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}