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Maeve and I can see it from our apartment.
Dad.
This was a standard postcard from him – a picture with some facts. Quinn saw him sometimes when he came to London for work, but the talk of Quinn visiting New York had stopped, he didn’t know why. There was no birthday card from his father today. He usually sent one about a week late. Last year he’d sent Quinn twenty dollars in the envelope. Quinn still had it, because his mother couldn’t get to the bank to change it into something he could spend.
The computer dial tone finally connected and Quinn logged onto his favourite website – a site that hosted chat forums forStar Warsfans. This is where Quinn went when hefelt lonely. Talking to other people about the world of Obi-Wan and Princess Leia distracted him from the silence of his own.
He clicked on the chat forum tab and a little black box popped up on the screen:
Jedi454:LukeQ, welcome back you are. How U?
Jedi454 was a regular forum user who Quinn had chatted to before.
LukeQ:Feeling Lego Falconless, Quinn typed back. He didn’t know who Jedi454 was, but he knew he would understand.
Jedi454:FanGirl90 is building one now. Wait, I’ll intro.
A new chat screen opened and Jedi454 started typing.
Jedi454:FanGirl90, meet LukeQ. He’s Falconless. She’s just landed one.
LukeQ:Hi FanGirl90, why r you online if you have a Falcon to build?
FanGirl90:Had to log on here for instructions – mine is second-hand, doesn’t have all the pages!
LukeQ:How far you got?
FanGirl90:Page 11. Rest missing.
LukeQ:Send me pic.
FanGirl90:
LukeQ:Wow, pretty good going for a girl – assume girl you are?
FanGirl90:GirlsLikeStarWarsToo
LukeQ:None I’ve ever met.
FanGirl90:Because they are at home trying to build Millennium Falcons without instructions.
LukeQ:Do or do not, there is no try.
FanGirl90:Nice! My dad bought it second-hand for my birthday. Said ‘how hard can it be?’ Answer, very.
LukeQ:Your dad sounds cool. I wanted one for my birthday but … walkie-talkies.
FanGirl90:Ugh.
LukeQ:Ugh.
FanGirl90:Luckily lots of Star Warriors on here helping me out with photos of instructions.
LukeQ:Resourceful you are.
