Dear X (Part 24 in a 26-part series)

Dear X,

You get short-changed because of the predominantly negative phrases with which you are connected.  Ex-girlfriend, excommunication, exile, exercise, expensive.  Even when one goes to have an x-ray, it is rarely because there is nothing wrong.  How quickly we forget such things as xenia (hospitality) and xenophobia (change IS bad, I don’t care what you say!). You come near to the end of the alphabet, but you’re right up there in my heart, so don’t frown.
You stand for kisses when written at the end of a letter or a card.  You indicate a wrong answer (so you teach us… from this function, let us just take away the fact that we learn from our mistakes). And, best of all, X… you mark the spot. Yargh!

Xaire,
Peat

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