>From: mmorgan@oznet.ksu.edu
>Organization: K-State Research & Extension
>To:
>Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 10:12:51 -0600
>Subject: FW: Dear Mom and Dad
>Priority: normal
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>
>
> Dear Mom and Dad:
>
> It has been six months since I left for college.
> I'm sorry I haven't
> written more often and I'm very sorry for my
> unthoughtfulness. I'm sure you
> have been worried about me. Let me bring you up to
> date, but before you
> read on, please sit down Ok? Don't read any
> further unless you're sitting
> down.
> Ok? Good.
>
> I am getting along pretty well now. The skull
> fracture and the concussion I got from jumping out of the window of
> my dormitory when it caught on fire several months ago are pretty
> much healed now. I only spent two weeks in the hospital! Mom always
> said the girls in our family heal fast. In fact, I can almost see
> normally again and I only get headaches three times a day now.
>
> Fortunately, the fire in the dormitory and my jump were witnessed
>by
> a gas station attendant who immediately called 911. He's so sweet.
> He even visited me in the hospital, and since I had nowhere to live
> because of the burnt-out dorm, he was kind enough to invite me to
> share his apartment with him. It's really a basement room, but it's
> kind of cute. He really is a good person with a kind heart. We have
> fallen deeply in love and are planning to get married. We haven't
> set the exact date yet, but I'm sure that it will be before I start
> to show.
>
> That's right, Mom and Dad, I'm pregnant! I know how much you
> are looking forward to being grandparents, and I know that you will
> give that baby the same love, devotion and tender care you gave me
> when I was growing up. We would get married now but we both failed
> our premarital blood tests because of some minor infection. He told
> me about beforehand, but dumb me, I carelessly caught it anyway.
>Not
> to worry though, the doctor said my daily penicillin injections
> should clear it up by next month.
>
> I know you will welcome him into our family with open arms. He is
> kind, and although not well educated, he is ambitious -- just like
> Dad! Also, he is of a different race and religion than ours, but I
> know, after all your years of teaching me tolerance, that you won't
> mind the fact that he is somewhat darker than we are. I'm sure you
> will love him as I do. His family background is good too! I am told
> that his father is an important gun bearer in his native African
> village. That's an important government position where he comes
> from.
>
> Well, I guess that's all! Now you know why I wanted you to sit
>down
> when you read this letter.
>
> Now that I've brought you up to date, I just wanted to let you know
> -- there was no dormitory fire, I didn't suffer a concussion or a
> skull fracture, I wasn't in the hospital, I'm not pregnant, I'm not
> engaged, I don't have syphilis and there is no boyfriend of another
> race or religion in my life; however, I DID vote for Gov. Bush, and
> I just wanted you both to see this in its proper perspective.
>
> Your loving daughter,
> Chelsea
>
> P.S. Stanford is great... I love it, though I miss
> you both terribly..and socks, too!
> P.S.S. Dad, please give my best to Monica and the
> others.
>
>
>
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