To the Editor:

You recently published a letter from a 12-year-old girl, Hope VanVlymen from Xenia, Ohio, who wrote of her love for LBI (“Another Home,” 11/12). Every summer, Hope travels with her family for 10 hours by car to spend two weeks at her grandmother’s in Ship Bottom. She calls it “home.”

Hope captured the magic of our beautiful Island. Her sensitive and mature letter jumped off the page and into the heart of this reader. It should inspire all of us to appreciate LBI and never take it for granted.

November 27, 2014