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The author, S, is writting to her parents about their, “fun,” experience at that weekend’s game seemingly trying to drop a subtle hint about their seat. S starts off the letter with an opener to both lay the hint that they want the seats and to appeal to their pity. She gose on to describe her experience as, “a whole other level,” and proceedes to openly ask for the seats for the next game so that she doesn’ have to deal with the. “nonsense,” of the student section. She then brings up her recent acomplishments to further butter up her parents. She then attempts to appeal to their logic by bringing up the fact that they are going to be out of town for a while so that she might be able to sit in their seats.

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