Dear Julie-
I was delighted to hear from you. Thanks for writing back. Its good to know that you keep in touch with karen and Vicky, they are both terrific people with a graet sense of humour.
I wa sorry to here that you failed Art, it quite surprised me because you are so talented. i still have the sketches that you did on my pad on December 3rd 75. They are very good. Why do you want to be a zoo keeper? I thought that they only employed males. When I was in America I went on an incredible motorbike-it was teriffic, I have fallen in love with them.
Thanks for Ann-Marie's address-she didn't reply tho'. Do you know if she or anybody else went back to college?
Your accident sounds awful. I can't at all, infact I can just about swim. I've always had an ear infection which meant staying out of the water-but I'd love to learn how to dive. It looks easy.
I have now signed an unemployment insurance (which sounds better than saying the dole), I thought it would be a bit degrading at first, but now I couldn't give a damn. I am going to live in America in either January or February. I can't wait to go because I don't like it too much here.
My writing is awful because I am sat on the stairs and am falling asleep (it's 5 a.m). I am going downstairs to make some tea and French toast. I can't sleep lately. I was just thinking about Ann-Marie, we used to talk a lot and she'd tell me how nice she thought you were and I'd agree and then she'd tell me that i ought to ask you out. I hope she writes to me!
How are things at home? Things here are as bad as ever. The overall atmosphere is awful and i want to leave but I can't get a job and I have no money, so I am saving every penny of my dole money & getting over to America on the cheap winter fares.
I still have 'Dying in the Sun' and your 'Give me the wasp that stung the bee' poems-have you got any more??
I shall close now, I'm going straight to the kitchen. Do write to me if you can find the time-
Friends always,
Steven
ENJOY!
P.S. sorry for the odd type errors.