A letter looking for someone · Classmate
Tess · Robarts Library, Toronto
Sent Nov 12, 2026
- Where & when
- University of Toronto Robarts Library · Toronto · Canada 2006–2008 her carrel on the fourth floor
- About them then
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Tess · about 19 then
A second-year English major with a green scarf she wore even in April, a thermos she guarded like treasure, and a habit of marking every page of her reading with tiny yellow flags. She claimed one carrel on the fourth floor as her own and defended it fiercely.
- Who I was then
- The tall guy in the maple-leaf toque who always borrowed your pens and never gave them back.
- Why I'm writing
- To say sorry · Hoping to meet again
Our seminar paper on Victorian novels was due in December 2007, and we were partners. I disappeared for ten days with a bad break-up and a worse attitude. You wrote the whole thing alone and put both our names on it. When I turned up the night before, I read it over and suggested changes as if I had helped. We got an A-minus, and I let you believe I was proud of it. I have thought about that night for nearly twenty years.
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