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FOUND by Maggie Keane
in Phoenix, Arizona
We just got back to Phoenix from a three week vacation to the east coast and found this note in our house left by some friend of the kid next door who was taking care of our dogs and plants. I particularly like the part about not having been up to anything, but, "I'M GETTING MARRIED AND MIGHT BE HAVING A BABY!!!!"
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How can you "might" be pregnant??? And if getting married is nothing, then it isn't going to last.
I love how she asks what he's been up to,says she's not been up to anything, and then says she's getting married, having a kid (maybe, lol) quit drinkin, smokin, and drugs.... its too funny
funny/tragic
i loe the casualness of it all. getting married,having a kid,giving up drugs, no biggie. it's also a little sad as it seems to have been written by someone pretty young
Oh, nothing new. Just baby, husband, no more drugs. Yawn. Same old.
And to think we're the ones who conscientiously used birth control.
" Roberta Beach Jacobson in Karpathos, Greece said:
Oh, nothing new. Just baby, husband, no more drugs. Yawn. Same old."
haha. she makes it seem like these three things are no big deal.
"I might be having a baby too. Hopefully he is going into the military."
Who? The baby?
No one has mentioned the fact that the (now clean and sober) probably pregnant, nearly married girl is MISSING SCHOOL...
This note is simultaneously hilarious and depressing. but good on her for being off drugs...i guess that is why she isn't up to anything.
this note has the tone, innocence and handwriting of a 10 year old. apparently a pregnant 10 year old. oh dear...
This girl has some problems. She is getting married but hopes her fiancee (presumably) is going to join the military. Not to mention all the other concerns already brought up. Hilarious and sad, I love it!
From my own experiences this is what i think is really happening... This is a teenage girl(obviously), who hasn't seen her friends in a long time, maybe she left during early high school and is now just graduating, she is trying to impress the friends that she used to have and is making up things. The reason i think this is because i work with children who are going through big changes or depression, things like that. I have found similar letters among their writings, we talk about it and they usually tell me they want to look important to their friends. I can image that this girl is very lonely.
I was laughing until I read your post, Melissa. It actually does remind me of some pathalogical teens I knew back in the day. "Yeah, nothing's up. Got a new job...pays $50 an hour..." This is sad, still a bit funny, but sad mostly. To think I won't even date someone I'm not stoked about. This is why us snobs stay alone I guess.
i have to agree with "funny/tragic" on this one... especially because i can't imagine someone who's old enough to be doing those things writing a note like this.
Did you happen to find this in North Carolina. Rocky Mount area? Strange, I might know the person who wrote this. Man, it's a small world.
I think it was just written by a girl who wanted to share her news with someone and wasn't a good correspondent. My BFF from high school would write me letters like this when I went away to college (she went work right after high school). She knew she had to start with a generic statement of innocuous greeting, and then she'd launch into whatever else she had to say - usually strung together just like this. Oy, it takes me back.
it sounds like she has never written a letter before and assumes that you're supposed to write it just like you're having a conversation. "hey what have you been up to? *pause for response* i havent been up to anything either..."
Sounds like a high school girl who decided that school sucked and dropped out. Only problem is, life turned out to be a lot harder than school (and pays shit without a diploma), so the only option open to her now is to get married to the guy who may have gotten her pregnant. Now the girl misses her friends but can't go back to H.S. I knew about five girls like this in high school, and it didn't end well for any of them. Sad.
I think she is so blase' about all of it because in the back of her mind she REALLY doesn't think it'll work out- she doesn't know when she's getting married, her "fiance" is "hopefully" going into the Army... She's pregnant and alone... Also, I wonder if she quit drugs, smoking and drinking before or after she became pregnant. And, why is the fact that he has the same name as her brother the scariest part of all of this for her?
eh. I can see someone lying about getting a well-paying job to impress some friends, but not about getting pregnant as a teen and having a fiance she may or may not marry. I don't know many people who would be impressed by that...
By the way, I also find it weird that she crossed out "Goals/Notes" 5 times. Why?
she didn't want whoever was receiving the letter to think that she was about to read the sender's goals. and apparently there is the possibility that the recipient knows english, german, french, spanish, and italian.
but overall, this note breaks my heart.
this note sounds very much like something i would have written when i was eight or nine. my little sister and friend and i would play "sisters," a version of house... my half the bedroom was usually new york and my sister's half was london. we wrote "letters" like this back and forth and folded them up and put them in empty shoeboxes like it was mail.
maybe that was just us... but it's funny because in our game, at least one of us was pregnant, engaged or getting off drugs. usually all three.
My gut reaction is that her situation is real. She hopes her fiance will go into the military because she sees that as providing stability: a steady income, decent housing, a job he can't ditch too easily...not to mention she hopes Basic makes a man out of him.
It sounds like she got clean after finding out she might be pregnant. I hope Jacky or some of the other "group from school friends" are people she can get some support from; she'll need it. And I agree with Sweetie Pea about the military--it's not a good thing that the guy's leaving, it's just stability. And maybe then she can respect him more.
(She'll visit? Did she move, or are her friends still going to be in school, "next fall"?)
This really sounds like the "wording" of someone fresh out of middle school.
The author started the note by crossing out "Goals/Notes" because she doesn't know what her goals are. She has a great emptiness within her. Previously, she tried to fill the void with drinking, smoking, drugs, even the "whole group" and Jack. Probably for the better, she abandoned all of those "things."
She wants recognition for quitting her past habits. She would like to feel as though she is moving forward in life--growing. Unfortunately, she can't get the acknowledgment from others and she isn't strong enough to give it to herself.
She obviously got mixed up with this new person, Michael. Michael's greatest contribution to her life is that he reminds her of her Brother (and accordingly, her childhood when she felt whole). However, the flippant way that she refers to him and the way she minimalizes Michael shows that is not really that important to her, and that he is her current attempt to chase away the loneliness.
She would like to be happy about being pregnant, but she can't be. Instead, she only sees her future as negative, as we can see by her predicting a fate of being fat and sick.
She says that she would like to see Jacky in the fall, but she is confused about whether this would be a step forward or a step back. She is torn between the past and the future. This note shows her as a typical teenager, trying to find her way. She hasn't yet, but I think she will.
I think she crossed out "Goals/Notes" because she wasn't using the paper for that... It was just paper torn out of a day planner that she was using to write a little letter on. I have multiple planners with very similar paper that I use for things other than writing down goals too. Ya'll might be reading just a little too much into it there.
Lynn, you're right of course. But it makes me think of when scientists find clay dolls in the dirt from ancient times and attribute them to religious figures. Have you ever noticed that EVERYTHING that is found, cave paintings and dolls and statues, ALWAYS has religious significance? Didn't people in those times ever play? No, all they did was make hunting tools, cooking utensils, and worship gods.
This would be a good one for "Hey, That's Me." I'd like to know how this person is doing, if the baby was a girl or a boy, and if Michael went into the Army and was deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. I'd like to know if the mother went back to school and got her GED. And I wonder what Jacky ended up doing with her/his life.
Well, maybe I don't want to know this, really.