Letter To A Novel About Survival In The Andes

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I am a grade nine student of Ecole Lacombe Jr. High School and I are Fifteen years old. I am writing to you because my L.A. class just read your novel about your survival in the Andes. When we finished your book, she requested us to send you a business letter. So, that is why I have written to you today.

Now I have some questions about your experience among the other survivors. The first one being, that all the other survivors say that you we the person to push the group to live, but you say the opposite? Does this mean that you were thinking about outlasting the others or were you the leader that they saw you as? As for my second question, is quite simplistic. I ask you what was your daughter's reaction when you told them this story? Were

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