Dear Rachel,

It's been a long time since I've written to you candidly. I want to ask how you're doing. However, I think you would agree that I already know the answer to that.

Over the years, you told your classmates that you were fine. The more you told them, the more they believed you. It was so convincing that even I started to believe it. As a matter of fact, it was so convincing that you didn't think you were lying.

But you were never 'fine', we're you?

If what you meant by...