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I’ve sent you one box with some clothes in it. I’ll probably be sending another one soon with some of the extra stuff from my packages. Everyone here has the same problem - too much stuff if we have to move out into the desert. Don’t tell anyone I’m sending any of this stuff home. I don’t want to seem ungrateful, and I will use it after I get home. It’s just too much stuff for me to use/eat and you can’t even give half the things away! Boy - I wish I always had this “problem”!

I’m sorry to go on about the mail, Mom. But if anyone asks if I need anything, just tell them I’d appreciate a nice,
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_ letter more than anything else, and if they feel they must send something, they can send a Daily News or 2, and some chewing gum! It’s good to know so many people care.

I wrote back to that Tiffany Moor, and I also wrote to Mrs. Stevenson and Mrs. Renner, since they were involved. But don’t let that fool you. I know you are really the brains behind the high school’s project, Mom. On behalf of all the other kids from the high school who are here, and who don’t know you’re behind it;

THANKS!!!