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March 22, 2014

Dear Aunt Emma,

    I was so happy to get your letter yesterday.

    I am heavier than you saw me last year, and I'm even the heaviest in my class now. So Mom wants me to go on a diet. Vegetables are good for my health, but meat isn't. Now I eat more vegetables but less meat and do more exercise than before. For example, I jump rope for thirty minutes every day and go swimming every weekend. By the way, I am the best swimmer in my class. I won the first prize at the swimming race last week.

    Dad often takes me to the beach in summer. Summer is the best season to swim. It's also my favorite season. Summer is coming. It is getting hotter and hotter. Would you like to go swimming with us when you come back to Dalian this summer? It will be fun.

    Of course, to me, getting taller is important, too. I am only 150 cm tall now. I'm the shortest of all the boy students in my class. Rope- jumping will help me to become taller than I am now.

Hope to see you soon.

Love,

Jack