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Letter To A Friend Rhetorical Analysis
Well, even if the following message might not have much meaning to you at this point ...
Well, Phuong, I guess this is goodbye. And I hope you will one day understand. You've got so many friends now. and you aren't stopping at any rate making more friends in the TF2 scene. Even Edy likes you. You don't need me anymore. I think now is my time to go finally. I've sold my Unusuals on marketplace.tf. The things I have left in my inventory will just die with me I guess. I sent you my unusual sniper rifle, since once upon a time you always wanted to buy that. Take care of the Litl Gorl sniper. As much as it may hurt, this is the last time you will probably ever see me. Goodbye Kristen, take care. I don't mean this in a bad way and I hope that you won't hate me. But things have just been too painful for me recently and I don't want to have to say hurtful things anymore if you don't want to change. And you are the only friend that I have now that I deeply care about, so it just stabs me every day to see you like this. I really am sorry I have to go. I still love you because I know that you are still the sweet person that I became a friend with back in July, even if you are very different now. Promise me that you'll make a change and that you will be more considerate about other people …show more content…
I guess I was selfish from keeping you from that dream. It was just that I got so hurt when you so evidently started becoming ruder and started caring about everything else less when you got into serious TF2 competitive playing. And I might be judgmental, but I blame the bad influence of the competitive community. And then when Edy stepped in, that was just a personal touch and now that he's in your competitive team, he's a friend of yours and he even likes you. Everything is just going in the worst possible scenario for me. You made the decision, you chose TF2 in the end. And so TF2 will stay with
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