Breakfast today was at 8:30 am, so I had an extra 15 minutes (well, twenty-five; I snoozed my alarm for the first time) to sleep in. When I got to the dining hall, there was a line leading into the room for us to pick up an envelope and notecard in order to send a message to one of the kids who had come to our dinner on Day 3. My kid hadn’t shown up, so I had to choose a child at random to write to. Even though by necessity my words had to be generic, I still tried to make my card sound as pe...