Dear Denise,
A weird thing happened to me today. For a long time nobody liked me. Judd never wrote. Bill wouldn’t talk to me. And Brad Neilson gave me dirty looks all the time. But today I fainted in P.E. and Brad helped me into the hall. Then Bill put his arm around me at lunch. And Judd wrote me a letter telling me how much he loves me! Speaking of Judd, enclosed is a picture of him. Please return it.
Have to cheer at a game tonight. Blah! Don’t ever become a cheerleader, it’s a drag. Better go now. Bye.
Love + Peace,
Martha
P.S. Write back
Dear Denise,
What’s happening? I’ve got good news. Don’t tell Aunt Nancy but I’m going to save up my money until I have $35 then I’m going to get a two-way plane ticket to come and visit. I’ll call or write and tell you when I get it all saved up.
We went to Rancho to see Viet Rock. It was an anti-war play. They sang some songs. My favorite one was called the “Brand-New War Machine.” It goes, “Have you seen the brand-new war machine? It looks real clean but it’s evil . . .” something like that.
L & K,
Martha
P.S. Say hi to everyone and write back.
Dear Denise,
I just came back from my “end of grade” school trip. The whole class went to Disneyland. We also went to a whole bunch of museums. It was fun. We passed right by your house! I tried to get Mr. Busdriver to stop, but he couldn’t. We didn’t get home until 12:30 at night but when I got out of the bus, sure enough, there was Brad, Tony & Monty (they didn’t go on the trip). Tony took my suitcase, Monty took my hatbox, and Brad took me. They walked me home.
Don’t tell anyone but on the bus I was with Monty’s little brother, Jeff. The first night of the trip Jeff was with Cynthia, the second with Marcy (a friend of mine) and the third (on the bus) with me. He really hurt me bad. Cynthia too. Oh well.
I better go now.
Love + Peace,
Martha
Hey Dee,
Cynthia likes this guy named Kim Smith. She was supposed to meet him at the jayvee basketball game but she was out on the field having a smoke. I was already stoned so I went in the gym and Kim was sitting by himself, waiting. I went up and sat with him and waited for Cynthia. I had just washed my hair and it really looked pretty and smelled like love. Kim started playing with it. Cynthia came in. She sat between me and Kim. After a few minutes, he got up and sat above me and started braiding my hair. Naturally Cynthia got mad. I admit it was bad to take him, but he liked me and that wasn’t my fault. After a while, me and Cyn made up.
Friday night Kim was babysitting his sister’s kids and he called me. We must’ve talked for two hours. It was really mellow. Saturday I went downtown with Cyn. On the bus home there was this guy who was a real freak. He had a silver cap on his front tooth. I decided to tease Cyn. I went over and sat down next to Joe Cool and whispered in his ear, “Kiss me baby, my tonsils itch.”
Sorry I haven’t written for so long. I’ve been busy (with Kim, of course). I think this is the first time I’ve ever wrote two letters and been going around with the same guy in both of them. Amazing! Just between you and me, I think Kim is going to ask me to go steady. I hope so. Sunday night Dern asked Cynthia to go steady. I’ve been hinting around a lot lately and I think Kim is finally getting the hint.
Dear Denise,
I’ve got to tell you what happened last night. Last night Cynthia and I were over at my house and Mike, Jay, and Steve (seniors) came over in Jay’s car. They asked us if we wanted to go to the Garble House with them. The Garble House is this old house that is supposed to be haunted by some old man. Well, we went down there and man, was it ever scary! Me and Cynthia and Suzette almost peed in our pants when we got out of the car. The house had a big front yard, all dirt, with an old, broken down fence. We climbed it easy. You walk up the steps to this castle door with a lion knocker, really heavy door. Mike pushed it open without knocking and we walked in. Big spiral staircase. We walked up the stairs into complete darkness before we saw the roof’s ripped off. We looked around a little more and then went out back. There was a big swimming pool and horse stables! After that we went down to Winchell’s and sat around and talked. The house was fantastically beautiful but obviously haunted. Me and Cynthia decided greed is a disease. Mike said we’re weird.
Love and miss you,
Martha