Hi.
It’s me again. How’s everything on your part? Everything is groovy on my part. I have just had a dream about Milan Pompa. He is cool, but does not like me. It was a bum dream and I woke up crying. But now I am happy. Weird.
If you can’t ask Nick for a picture send me his address and I will do it myself. How do you like this paper? I think it is boss. It is the exact same pink as the flamingos at The Flamingo. At the present it is 12:00 at night. I just woke up from that bad dream about Milan P. I wish I could tell you about all the neat people at school. Here is one: Mr. Harris. He is a teacher. He is so boss you can tell him anything.
Well, see you later. Remember to send Nick’s address. I’ll tell you more about more people later.
Love + Peace,
Martha
Dear Denise,
Raining. Please hurry with Nick’s address. I have the letter wrote and everything! Oh, by the way even if Nick doesn’t like me I still want his address so I can change his mind. If you’re jealous and don’t want me to have a boyfriend then don’t send me his address. How are YOU? How is Jerry? How is Aunt Nancy? I like a boy named Richard. He is almost the cutest boy in the whole world. Next to Nick! At school we are having a contest to see who can write the best poem. Mine is about John F. Kennedy. I am going to win. Got to go now. See ya!
Bye,
Martha
Dear Denise,
Please pay no attention to that last letter. I have decided that I don’t want anyone but Richard. He loves me and I love him. Isn’t that boss? How are you doing with Jerry? Why does he go to a different school? Do you have Phases at your school? We do! Here is what phases I go into next year: English 5 (there are 5 Phases), Math 4, S.S. 5, Science 5. How about that? Your cousin is a genius! (Ha, ha, and ha.) Well, I got to go now. I haven’t finished my homework.
Love + Peace,
Martha
P.S. Tell Nick what I said about Richard.
P.P.S. Good luck with Jerry!
Dear Denise,
Have you met Mom’s new boyfriend Gene? He looks so cool! He has a scar on him from his chest to his back. Far out!
I hope David picks you. If you ever see Nick tell him I said “Hi.” The last day of school was cool. Everybody had squirt guns. I squirted Milan Pompa and he poured a hat full of water over my head! Then I hit him.
There is a boy at our school named David that everybody likes but he likes a girl I know (Cynthia Scott). I don’t try to take him away because Cynthia is one of my best friends.
Guess what? It has been raining for three days!
Tell Aunt Nancy that if she thinks all I talk about is boys she should read some of your letters. Sending two pictures. The one that says “the gang” is the gang. The other one is Milan Pompa. (It’s a bad picture of him.)
Say “Hi” to Nick, Ronnie, every boy, and Aunt Nancy.
Love,
Martha
Dear Denise,
School starts Tuesday and everyone is kind of depressed. 7th grade, blah. Went shopping today and got a suede skirt, a pair of boots, a pair of moccasins that come to my knee, a pair of red shoes, a pair of light blue shoes, and a purse.
Mom and Gene got married in a drive-thru. I couldn’t go but they showed me pictures. Got to go. Say hi to everyone.
Love and peace,
Martha
Dear Denise,
I’ve got to tell you what we’ll do at the river. (We is Ronnie, David, you, and me.) The first day there we’ll go down to the pool hall and the pool. When we’re at the pool Ronnie picks me up and throws me in. Then you come over to the edge and David pushes you in and you take Ronnie and David with you. The next day, just the four of us go on a boat ride. We are half way across the river when a storm hits. We get through that then we go water skiing and skinny dipping. After that, you and David go into a cove and Ronnie and I walk along the shore, holding hands (among other things). On the last day me and you sit around and cry while the boys are depressed. That night we leave. Pretty good, eh?
Why am I so ugly? Debbie and Cynthia are so much cuter it’s not even funny.
Debbie is conceited. She acts like she’s the greatest. I’m hardly ever around Cynthia, so I don’t know about her. Debbie says she is but I don’t think so. Say hi to everyone. I wish I was there.
Miss ya,
Martha
Dear Denise,
How are you? I am fine. Lots happening here. We are having race riots. A boy in English got killed on the Westside last night. Even as I write this there are things on the radio about it. Just now they’re saying two more kids were killed at Rancho (black boys).
Today my boyfriend (Tony de Bonio) came to class with a big bandage on his head. When I asked him what happened he said he was walking home from school and some colored kid hit him with a chain. I almost cried. Then at lunch he came up to me and Eddie (Garcia), put his arm around me and said, “I’m not going to have you walking home alone. Wait for me after school.” Then he walked me to class.
Love and peace!!!
Martha