Bro,
Wow now there is two girls after you. Well what am I to do. About the situation, here’s some girlie advice or some questions. How much do you get to see Erica, because if it is a long distance relationship, then instead of all the pain of not seeing her and worrying about what she might be doing then I would go with the other girl. However, if you have stronger feelings for Erica then go for it. Wow this sounds stupid but I tried, if it was me I guess I wouldn’t get right into a relationship with either one of them until I find out who I like better. Well I knew you would be mad at me for going to EMU and not looking you up, but I wasn’t there for a long time. Well time to go, hope you have a great day or night. talk to you soon, mom says hi.
Love,
Sis
Erica was my high school sweetheart whom I’m still in touch with today. The sender of this letter, “Sis”, is actually my high school friend Cammy. Erica and I had briefly flirted with getting back together when I moved down to college and I was trying to decide if it was a good idea or if I should stick with another girl I’d been seeing. In the end, I fucked it up with both of them. Whoops.
Thanks for writing me. I appreciated the comforting words about Josh. =) Are you planning to get your school email set up? I think I saw your girl (Lisa). hehehehe. I’m in your room right now and you’re not here. Should I go through your stuff?
OK I’ll be good.
Thanks for taking me along to dinner. (sarcasm sarcasm)
Just kidding.
Bye!
~S
This email is from a girl named Susan, whom I had an enormous crush on. Not only was she tall, gorgeous, blonde, but she also happened to be one of the smartest people I’d ever met.
She’d been dating this much older guy, Josh, for quite some time. It appears they’d broken up or were having troubles, as per usual. They had a very interesting relationship to say the least; they were open as I’d find out later that year.
Joe …
You are going to have to give me a little time to think about this one … good grief. I didn’t know that you were quite as serious as you seem to be, I’m sorry if I hurt you … give me a little time to think things through … yes, I DO want to keep in touch and be best buds like we used to be … we CAN make things work, I know that, and I believe that …
I will write again later, I promise.
Love,
Adrienne
I have absolutely no idea what the hell this is all about. Clearly I was in full on melodramatic mode at this point. It wasn’t long after this that we, ironically, ended up losing touch for the most part.
Joe
I’m sorry for not responding on ICQ last night, Brad had just walked in and he and i got into a huge fight … it really sucked … you know that I am always here for you if you need to talk … at least I try to be, I don’t have a lot of extra time lately it doesn’t seem like. I am getting about 4 hours of sleep a night and I am running constantly, I have a lot of things on my mind … one of them is how I don’t want to lose touch with you … I will do my best to be here for you whenever I can k? I’m sorry if I upset you last night, I was pretty upset myself with things going on with Brad … I am confused as well, so let’s just be here for one another k?
I will talk to you later bud, I have to get going to class….
Later,
Adrienne
I have no idea what this email is about. What I do know is that I had this absurd notion that her and I were meant to be together and other such nonsense. Also, I hated that Brad guy.
Joe,
Ya know that really hurts when you say that I might be just one of Kelly’s relayers. Well guess what I’m not! I thought we became pretty good friends and a friend doesn’t do that to another friend. I haven’t talked to Kelly probably since July or so. She isn’t one of my good friends anymore. I still think of her as my sister, but she is not the same Kelly I use to know. I wish you could have known her when we were younger. Yes I understand that college is much more than a high school relationship. I’m sorry if Kelly hurt you, but you can’t just think that all of her friends are the same way as her. I was hoping that we could keep in touch eventhough we are in collge now. I never made fun of you just for your future reference. I hope you do go for your goals since you seem to have a bright future in computers. That guy that came into Kmart that you helped always came up to me later on and told me to thank you for the great help you gave him. Do you have ICQ down there? Well I gotta go.
Kim
p.s. YOU BETTER EMAIL ME BACK DAMN IT, because I am still your friend no matter what happened to you and Kelly. Which I’m suprised you stayed with her this long. So more power to you!
Kelly is Kim’s friend that I dated. We’d broken up a few days before, over ICQ no less, and Kim was wanting to let me know we could still be friends. The hilarious part was that Kelly put up a notice, in huge, red h1 font, on her Tripod site saying, “IF YOU ARE JOE STUMP LEAVE THIS SITE NOW!” or something to that effect.
Also, Kelly didn’t hurt me. I broke up with her so I could go have fun with college girls.
Hey there bud,
Sorry I haven’t written lately. I have been VERY busy with my sorority. I tried to call you earlier, but nobody answered, I will try to get ahold of you either tonight late or tomorrow after my classes … I am done tomorrow at 2.
I hope everything is going as good as you were hoping it would go … =]
Love ya,
Adrienne
I met Adrienne in, I shit you not, #teen on
DALnet sometime in December of 1997. She lived out west in the South Dakota. My family ended up passing through her hometown on a family vacation at the end of my senior year where we met for the first and only time.
Hi Joe,
How’s goin’ wasn’t sure what email address to send it too. So I’m sending to all of them that I have. Things are goin’ pretty good up here at college. I hope your college is treating you well. So what’s new with you? Not much here. I just thought I’d drop you a line since I didn’t get a chance to talk to you before I left for college.
Write soon,
Kim
I dated Kim’s best friend my last year of my senior year of high school. This friend of hers had had a rough life growing up and was living with her aunt and uncle when we had dated. Kim, on the other hand, came from a loving home and was very well adjusted.
I think the two were remained friends simply because they had been childhood friends.
