She has written to me eleven times.

I have read all of them.

That is a decision I made in the first year with Dr.

Achebe and I think it was the right one — I do not throw them away and I do not leave them unopened in a drawer, because both of those are ways of not deciding.

I read them once, and I put them in a folder, and I do not reply.

The first four were the same letter.