I will share with you any stories that you like, though you must share, too. Tales and secrets are best traded, I've found. I want to ask Is this a fair bargain?
This afternoon has rendered me quite senseless. Zelma has been entertaining and I have been both party and sometime object of it. She calls me names I cannot translate, and I know not if they are good or ill, and the laughs that follow do little to offer context. She likes me, I think - or I hope and so then do I say that I think so that I might better believe it - for she bought me a sturdy hat, the kind that the witches here wear out of doors. It is very handsome.
I cannot write in this condition. I tried to take a photograph and dropped my camera but thankfully it is not broken. I would be so very sorry to break anything you had given me.
You are wicked and not I. I had thought you would teach me a new language once I had my fill of fluency.
When, sakha, when? I will be home 7 December.
Padma
23 November 1998
Dear Theodore,
I will share with you any stories that you like, though you must share, too. Tales and secrets are best traded, I've found. I want to ask Is this a fair bargain?
This afternoon has rendered me quite senseless. Zelma has been entertaining and I have been both party and sometime object of it. She calls me names I cannot translate, and I know not if they are good or ill, and the laughs that follow do little to offer context. She likes me, I think - or I hope and so then do I say that I think so that I might better believe it - for she bought me a sturdy hat, the kind that the witches here wear out of doors. It is very handsome.
I cannot write in this condition. I tried to take a photograph and dropped my camera but thankfully it is not broken. I would be so very sorry to break anything you had given me.
You are wicked and not I. I had thought you would teach me a new language once I had my fill of fluency.