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You mentioned something about your house and creatures. Do you have even more creatures than the ones I saw in your case? Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised. I'm just surprised you never mentioned them. You also never mentioned this assistant of yours, Bunty.

Nothing really worth mentioning has happened since you left. My job, so far, has been pretty boring, but only because I haven't been given a case of my own yet. I just have piles of paperwork to deal with. I've been stuck in my office all day and I'm still not done.

Queenie is hovering over me as I write this. I may as well tell you what she's trying to get me to put in the letter since I know she won't leave me alone if I don't. She keeps insisting I ask what you're doing for Christmas and that I suggest you come here if you don't have any plans. I told her you probably do have something you're doing and that we shouldn't expect you to buy a ticket to come here just to see us but, of course, you're always welcome here.

Now Queenie won't talk to me because I put her in the letter as the one who told me to invite you. But she just asked me to say hi to you for her so, Queenie says hi.

I hope you and all your creatures are still doing well.

Sincerely,
Tina

P.S. I miss you too.

P.P.S. And now Queenie is teasing me for having written that.

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Dear Tina,

I've very glad you received my letter and that you replied to it. I'm sorry your job isn't as exciting as you'd like but I'm sure you'll be given a case of your own soon. You're a very talented woman and you deserve recognition.

To answer your question about my creatures, yes, I do have more creatures. I've enlarged the basement of my house to hold all of them. I even have a whole lake, just for my Kelpie. But I'm not going to bore you with pointless stories about my creatures since I think we both know I could talk about them forever. I know I never mentioned Bunty but that's because I don't really have much to say about her. She just helps me with my creatures, that's all.

Please say hello to Queenie for me. And tell her that I don't have any plans for Christmas and I would be more than happy to join the two of you, but only if you really want me to come.

Bunty is calling me to help with something so I have to go. I'd add more to this letter later but I'd really like to get it sent now so I'll just write more another time.

Sincerely,
Newt

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Dear Newt,

I don't mind if you talk about your creatures. I know how much you love them. I actually enjoy hearing your stories about them and I'd love if you told more of them.

Of course, we'd like you to come for Christmas. Queenie was very excited when she heard you'd be willing to come. It was nice to see her smiling. She almost never smiles anymore, you know, since Jacob was Obliviated.

Since I know you're going to ask about Jacob, I'm just going to tell you now that, no, we don't know anything about him. I know you gave him those Occamy eggshells but we don't know if he's started his bakery yet. Queenie has been doing everything she can to find out but we're still not sure.

Anyway, my pile of work just keeps getting bigger, no matter how much of it I do. I wish I had something interesting to tell you but I don't.

I hope we'll see you soon.

Sincerely,
Tina

Beneath Tina's signature was another note, this one in much fancier handwriting.

Dear Newt,

I don't want to call my sister a liar, especially since what she said was essentially true. However, I will accuse her of not telling you the whole story. It is true that I was excited to hear you were coming but I was nowhere near as excited as Tina was. You should have seen her. She hasn't stopped smiling since your letter came and she's already thinking of a million things she'd like to do with you and say to you. She's also really nervous, and I'm sure you are too. I think she'd kill me if I told you how she really feels about you so I'm just going to tell you that she really misses you. She really, really misses you.

Can't wait to see you again!

Love,
Queenie

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Dear Tina,

This is just a quick note to tell you that I will be arriving in New York at 5:00 on 23 December. Can't wait to see you.

-Newt

A/N: Yay! First chapter of my new book! I hope you enjoyed it! Please vote and comment!

I'd like to update this book as often as I can because it is going to be very long. As in, 50 chapters long. However, I do have school and that really needs to be my first priority, especially since it hasn't always been in the past. So far, I haven't been writing this when I had homework to do but it's only the first day of school so I hope I can keep that up while still being able to update frequently. We'll see what happens.

Anyway, it's almost time for me to go to Bible class. I have a free period now because I'm not taking Economics. 

Have a good day!

Bye!

Written January 8, 2019.