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In this one page, typed letter by Jamie Lavender, a high school student living in Lakewood, New Jersey, and dated 20 October 1983, the writer wrestles with the question about what fiction is for. She or he believes it is to "free the mind" not "burden" it with thoughts of terrorism as she experienced while reading After the First Death.. She struggles to reconcile the competing views of herself and those of her teacher.

20 October 1983