Letters from Chicago

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June 27, 2004

Dear Jamie,

Love you love you love you love you love you love you love you love you love you love you love you love you love you love you love you love you love you love you love you.

Will be seeing you in a week! Oh thank God so much and love you so so so so so much. You have the best ideas, ever. Especially when they involve me a) not being at my mother’s and b) seeing you.

Mom’s decided to try and combat my almost wholly science based education (in her mind) and has started dragging me to museums and plays and stuff. Mind, I like museums and plays and stuff, but I dislike being coerced into going to them with my mother. Especially since we have such drastically different tastes. She keeps trying to show me all of this modern stuff and I just don’t understand it.

Honestly, I think she’s almost as glad as I am that I’m going away for next weekend. I wonder if she regrets yet making me come home and forbidding me internet access. She’s to stubborn to go back on it and let me have my connection, or God forbid, send me back to school, but I can tell having me around all the time is driving her up the wall almost as much as it is me. She’s started suggesting I spend more nights at my dad’s, but I still am not fond of sleeping on the couch. Will do it for special stuff (like when dad and I had a Jackie Chan movie marathon this week) but not more often.

Dad’s also been teasing me about how quickly I’m going through paper. Told him he could either send me back to school or not hassle me about the cost of snail mail correspondence. He just laughed.

Love you lots, and I’ll see you soon (albeit, not soon enough.)
-Kitty

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June 27, 2004

Dear Paige,

How are you? How go things at school? Hope you’re at least pretending that holidays mean you’re allowed to work less – if nothing else it will make Angelo worry not so much.

Like the paper? Got it just for writing to you – pink sparkles being mailed to anyone else at the mansion would probably get me institutionalized the second I stepped back on the grounds. Sorry I didn’t find any shiny pens to write with, but the little heart stickers make up for it, I think.

You’ve probably heard that my parents are forbidding me computer access while I’m here. Or, not forbidding it, as such, since I can get online at the library, just not letting me use it at home. It’s driving me nuts. I can’t get any work done, and have taken to reading everything that comes into my grasp to distract myself. Got any recommendations?

Say hi to your boys for me, hope they’re well, and give mine a hug for me, because I can only write ‘I love you’ so many times and it’s not the same.

Stay safe, and try not to work yourself too hard on the summer classes – they’re really not that important in the long run. (By the way, are you going to be taking any correspondence courses next term? The college’s offering what looks to be a really fantastic Chem class, although I can’t figure out from the booklet if the labs are do-without-able or make-up-able. I mean, Dr. McCoy is more than qualified for them, but getting the college to let me do things that way is always a fight.)

Damn. Have run out of paper, and I only bought the one. Will try and find something even more girly for my next letter.

Love to all,
-Kitty

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June 27, 2004

Dear girls,

How goes? Has Terry killed you yet, Jubilee? Hope not, or if you did, Terry, I hope you didn’t get any blood on my sheets.

I know I should more properly write to all of you separately, but this is more fun. For one thing, I like writing “Residents of room 215” on the envelope. Leave me my small amusements, as there’s precious little else to find fun here.

No, that’s a bit of an exaggeration. I’ve been having some fun, although it’s weird doing without my computer most of the time. But the fresh air is good for me, and my control on my temper in regards to my mother gets better every day – although that may be more because every day I get a day closer to getting to leave. I mean, I love my mom, loads, but she drives me nuts some times.

One of the big things I’ve been doing is going to baseball games. My poor Cubs are having a better year than usual, but I can’t really see them doing as well as they did last year. Which is not to say I’m giving up hope. It’s nice to be able to go to the games, at least the home games, and actually see them instead of having to put up with broadcasters and adds.

Am going to get to get away from my parents next weekend. Don’t know if Jamie’s told anybody, but he managed to arrange things so he could go home for the Fourth, and we talked my mom and dad into letting me fly out to visit him and meet his family – a daunting task in and of itself, but well worth it to get to see him.

Must run – am meeting one of my friends here for lunch in the city and if I don’t dash I’ll miss the Ell. Will drop this letter in the box on the way.

Hugs and love to all of you. I miss you guys so much.
-Kitty