P.S. I Miss You: Monday, April 8th–Sunday, September 29th

by Jen Petro-Roy
When her strict parents send her sister Cilla away, Evie writes letters to deal with her feelings of loss and a complicated crush on a friend.

Here are links to our lists for the novel: June 18th–Saturday, December 29th, Sunday, December 30th–Sunday, April 7th, Monday, April 8th–Sunday, September 29th
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  1. pang
    a sudden sharp feeling
    Katie and Maggie aren’t going to care that June broke her middle finger last year and that whenever it’s going to rain she feels a little pang there.
  2. lapel
    a fold of fabric below the collar of a coat or jacket
    They wore matching dark suits and each of them had a little flower in his lapel.
  3. fedora
    a hat made of felt with a creased crown
    One wore a fancy fedora (I think that’s the name of the hat with the big brim) and the other had curly black hair.
  4. closure
    something settled or resolved
    Maybe if you hear how she’s doing, or see a picture of her, you’ll find some closure.
  5. gnarled
    old and twisted and covered in lines
    His fingernails are all yellow and gnarled and his face looks like a huge white raisin.
  6. disciple
    one who believes and helps spread the doctrine of another
    I know Jesus washed the feet of his disciples to cleanse them and make them feel part of the Church blah blahdeblah blah blah, but that was about a million years ago.
  7. telekinesis
    the power to move something by thinking about it
    We pretended the little boy who walked in with his mom had telekinesis.
  8. stall
    deliberately delay an event or action
    My plan was simple: no stalling, no changing the subject.
  9. dugout
    a shelter beside a baseball field for players and coaches
    I decided to risk breaking my cover when one of the players ran to the dugout for some water.
  10. bounty
    the property of being richly abundant or plentiful
    “Well, you should thank God for the bounty before you,” Mom said in her very best “I know better than you because I’m a mom” voice.
  11. wispy
    thin and weak
    She had wispy brown hair and green eyes, just like you.
  12. hypocrite
    a person who professes beliefs that he or she does not hold
    What if you haven’t seen this picture? What if they know more? They’re hypocrites.
    (And I shouldn’t care what hypocrites think about who I might or might not like!)
  13. amputee
    someone who has had a limb surgically removed
    You know how some amputees can feel phantom pain in the limb they’ve lost?
  14. registrar
    the administrator responsible for student records
    Then June suggested the registrar’s office, which made total sense.
  15. turret
    a small tower extending above a building
    The registrar’s building was the one on the front of the brochure. The one that looks like Hogwarts, with the gray stone walls and tall turrets.
  16. alias
    a name that has been assumed temporarily
    I described you, like maybe she was confused. Or you were using some alias so you could really escape Mom and Dad’s influence.
  17. senile
    mentally or physically infirm with age
    At first I protested, but then Katie said that the secretary was super old and probably senile, that she didn’t know what she was talking about and we should explore the campus more.
  18. quad
    a rectangular area surrounded on all sides by buildings
    I think I knew deep down that Katie didn’t know what she was talking about, but I still followed them.
    Down the tulip-lined path through the quad.
  19. pioneer
    one the first colonists or settlers in a new territory
    I mean, we don’t live in the pioneer days.
  20. obsessive
    characterized by an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation
    The past nine months flashed before my eyes. Mom and Dad racing to pack their suitcases. Aunt Megan not answering any of my questions. Mom’s tears. Dad’s silence. Mom’s obsessive cooking. Dad’s transformation into a workaholic hermit.
  21. hermit
    one who lives in solitude
    The past nine months flashed before my eyes. Mom and Dad racing to pack their suitcases. Aunt Megan not answering any of my questions. Mom’s tears. Dad’s silence. Mom’s obsessive cooking. Dad’s transformation into a workaholic hermit.
  22. forge
    make a copy of with the intent to deceive
    It was because Mom and Dad couldn’t forge more than your signature.
  23. denial
    a defense mechanism that shuts out painful thoughts
    Mom said they did it because they were in denial, that they still felt so guilty about sending you away they needed to ignore what happened to you.
  24. revelation
    an enlightening or astonishing disclosure
    Their big revelation doesn’t make things better, though.
  25. hypnotic
    attracting and holding interest as if by a spell
    It was so windy that it kept swinging back and forth, back and forth. It was hypnotic.
  26. crochet
    make needlework by interlocking thread with a hooked needle
    There was a baby blanket on the bed, one of the pink crocheted ones Grandma used to make.
  27. reform
    lead or force to abandon a wrong or evil course of life
    I thought Mom was going to send me to my room. Or to church, so I could talk to Father O’Malley about “reforming.”
  28. imprint
    establish or impress firmly in the mind
    I like to think that Amélie remembers you, though, that some part of you imprinted itself on her when she was born.
  29. straggle
    go, come, or spread in a rambling or irregular way
    She didn’t say anything about my hair, either, which is super long now, and really straggly.
  30. vigil
    the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes
    There were two candles shining brightly in front of him. Vigil lights.
Created on Fri Aug 17 11:27:52 EDT 2018 (updated Fri Aug 17 13:28:17 EDT 2018)

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