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time to forget, send me a letter, say you forgive, the sooner the better
by mg at 11:38 AM on October 24, 2002
I’ve spent every night this week helping my mom, more time than I’ve spent with her years. It’s all because, after spending her entire life in New York City, and the last 14 years in the same house, she is leaving the city.
I don’t want to even get into that whole thing, at least now, but some there has been some good that has come from this.
One, I’m getting a whole bunch of free furniture and kitchen appliances. Yeah!
Two, I’m getting to look through all the old junk that I left there when I left for college. All my old toys, notebooks of bad poetry, pictures of Paula Abdul, and more! I’m finally reclaiming the acoustic guitar I’d never learned to play well, all my old baseball cards and comic books, and a bunch of hopelessly out of style clothing.
Nothing to do with that, exactly, but last night my mom handed me this letter she’d found when cleaning out my grandmother’s apartment after she died earlier this year. It was really amazing all the things my grandmother had kept, which I don’t think any of us thought she was sentimental enough to have held onto. Decades old birthday cards, all the little chachkas her grand children had given her, no matter how horrendously ugly. The letter was one I’d written to my grandmother from summer camp, when I was just nine years old.
I think it’s interesting and cute, and I hope you will too. It’s also very relevant in regards to the grammar discussion going on in the comments right now. I think it’s pretty obvious I’ve always had problems; I’m not sure why, even at nine years old, I thought “wrote” had an “h” (though I did realize I was wrong, even then).
I also still have trouble spelling raccoon (thank god for spell check).
At any rate, take a look.
comments (12)
You had raccoons?
by Lucy at October 24, 2002 12:18 PM
Well, not at home, but at summer camp, yeah. There was this actually this one time, at summer camp, when I stuck a raccoon in my... no, thats a different story.
by mg at October 24, 2002 12:35 PM
Nine years old? That means you were in 4th grade when you wrote that letter? By 4th grade, my mom had be doing algebra and playing the violin.
by Eviltom at October 24, 2002 12:38 PM
Had "be" doing algebra? Who is "be", and why was your mom forcing them to do algebra and play the violin?
by mg at October 24, 2002 12:50 PM
"be" is my little brother. look buddy, my family is not american. we dont have nice american names like "micheal" ok? so sue us. my parents just wanted to make a decent life of their children. thanks for making fun of my entire family.
by Eviltom at October 24, 2002 2:28 PM
I thought maybe you had a codl or something.
I once had a raccoon at home. But he died :(
by Lucy at October 24, 2002 2:35 PM
*cold
by Lucy at October 24, 2002 2:36 PM
Pictures of Paula Abdul?? Dude, you ROCK!!!!
by Jack Cluth at October 24, 2002 5:53 PM
jesus, Lucy, that story broke my heart. First, you get us emotionally attached, then you just take it all away.
*runs off to get tissues*
p.s. I actually have a very similar story about a couple cats and a dog...
by Linz at October 25, 2002 9:04 AM
I had a similar story too. About a baby brother.
by mg at October 25, 2002 9:06 AM
OMG, that letter is so sweet... so cute
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