Why had it taken me so long to figure out what Maya's letter meant?

In the days that followed, there was much discussion about what the letter really meant.

I couldn't explain it any other way: the letter must mean my plan had worked.

That letter must mean something like "You're running into danger."

The letter means a lot for everybody in the family.

Teachers say that letters of thanks have always meant more to them than gifts.

And the letter meant for him was stolen along with all the rest.

In this miserable place, a letter would mean a very great deal indeed.

He'd never seen them before, in those days so far past, when the letters had meant other things to him.

Perhaps that was what the numbers and the letters meant.