THE COFFEE CUP LETTERS                                   By                           Prachi Gurjar       Chapter One: The Girl Who Counted StarsLily  had grown up counting things. As a child, she counted the steps from her bedroom toher father's room, the number of times the ceiling fan creaked before sleep took her, and the dayssince her mother had stopped being there to count them with her.She was five when her mother died. Too young to understand the difference between gone for awhile and gone forever, she had spent the first few months waiting by the gate every evening,certain her mother would walk through it carrying