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December 29, 2002 |
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Dear Daddy
FOUND by Amanda Summers
in Bay Area, California
Found on a BART train in the Bay Area
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
that's an interesting juxtoposition between the gel pen and hello kitty and the content of the letter.
Hello Kitty has never seen such sad days...
"Are you in love with someone else now?" Is this an incestuous relationship or am I just a pervert?
When my ex-husband gets a new girl friend he stops visiting our children and rarely calls. Sometimes they dont hear from him for months and months. Maybe the fact that he's in love with someone else shows her he doesnt have time for her right now.
I knew before reading the letter that it was going to be jacked up. A black hello kitty notepad w/yellow gel pen -- it couldn't be any other way.
Cathy has a very good point... But it does seem odd. Seems like a sad love note right after a Daddy, I love you note.. So in the end it looks like she decided to save on hte fancy sationary when writing to her father and lover who both happen to be in the same prison.
"Dear Daddy" followed later by "Are you in love with someone else now?" Strange.
Maybe she's trying to get a love letter past the prison guards without them noticing who it's really from? Do they read inmate's mail? Of course, that begs the question of why she doesn't want them to think it's from her. Maybe she's his partner in crime and doesn't want to be traced back through her letters? Maybe he was abusive and she's not supposed to be writing to him but she can't help herself? Maybe she's in rehab and one of the conditions of her treatment is that she not contact her old drug buddies, including her ex-boyfriend?
Or maybe she thinks this guy has been ripping up her letters without opening them, so she's hoping that this guy will think this one is from his daughter, so he'll open it and start reading it...
I think the more logical explanation is that this is a diary page, and the girl has simply moved from what she would say to one person to what she would say to another.
I am pretty sure she is calling him "Daddy" as pet name, like you would call someone "Mami" or "Papi".
Sarah: Why would you call someone 'mami' if they were in no way related to you? I don't get it.
Its not gel ink on black paper. The sender must have reversed the colors so that the writing would show up better. If you reverse the colors of the photo it is clear that it is blue ink on white paper.
Mami and Papi are from Spanish- it's a term of affection like mamacita, papacito, etc. It's not the same as Mommy. And definitely "big daddy" or terms of the like are used in romantic relationships. But I don't know about this one. With the stationary and the words and I don't know. I'm just glad it's not me.
I read this that the Justin mentioned might be the son of the author and the intended recipient (Tim?) and that she refers to him as "Daddy" in the way new parents might in front of their child, perhaps as a reminder that it's not just her he's ignoring?
I think the writer of the letter is trying to trick the recipient into reading the letter. Maybe they have a child together and she knows that if she makes the letter appear to be from the child(hence starting it out with 'dear daddy'), that he'll open it and read it instead of sending it back like he has done the rest of her letters.
I like what Bry had to say. The idea of it being a mother referring to her husband as "Daddy" as some parents do is completely plausible in my mind. I think the content of the letter is very sad. It makes me wonder why doesn't the man want to read her letters? I would feel terrible if I took the time to write out letters only to have them sent back.
When my step-mom came from where she lived to here my first words were "You don't love me anymore??" The "Do you love someone else?" seems more to me that she's a "daddy's girl" that's afraid he's moved on to a new family and won't love her anymore.
IF THAT MOTHERTRUCKER is in prison? and he still sendin' yo letters back, gull??? getcher sef togethah..cause it aint like he got shit else to do..yeah, what a waste of TOTALLY AWESOME stationary...wow..ya comin down off that meth now? uh huh...wow...turns out that THE WHOLE TIME...you were mailin' the letters to the...to the ZOO? sitCHO ass down..put THAT GEL PEN DOWN. that's right..feels good, doesn't it..yeah..let's just get rid of that, right now..