Wednesday, December 26, 2012

March 19, 1975 (Letter from Ken and Denise)

 
Well hi there.  Sounds like things are going somewhat rough for you on the social scene.  Often Denise and I have remarked:  "Too bad Paul isn't here now."  There is so much news to catch up on, but first, a bit about your last letter.  At the onset, I thought maybe it was just a temporary change you were going thru but after I thought awhile, I can see you and your setting don't mix beyond a span of vacation.  Let me assure you that if you return to Pgh, you will immediately have a family to move in with.  If you don't like it there, and you're going to leave "sometime" anyway -- why not now.  a lot of things are happening here and we wish you were here!

To give you some of our news -- well I'll let Denise take a shot at this.  So here's the one, the only Neecy!  Da-da-goo-ga-goo Bab a lob a koo.

Boy, how did you like that introduction?  I thought it was kind of gooey myself.

Well, just as Kenny said, there are a lot of things happening.  The most recent bit of news is that we moved again.  Our new address is: 20-F Midway Dr., W. Mifflin, Pa 15122.  This is out hear Homestead, which is near Kennywood.  This is a housing project out here where the rent is really low.  We got a two bedroom apartment one which we use, and one which a brother uses, which brings us to our second bit of news.  The brother of ours that lives with us just came out of prison.  We met him through someone else.  His name is Mickey by the way.  So anyway, Mickey came over one day by himself, I think it was to buy some grass.  But anyway, he was looking for a place to stay, and didn't have enough money, so he's living with us now.  That day, the first day when he came over, Kenny asked him how much money he had.  Mickey pulls out all of it which totaled an amount of 75 or 80 dollars.  Kenny said OK and grabbed it and put it in his pocket, which helped all 3 of us stay high on the weed.  We all had to get adjusted to each other's lifestyle for awhile, but we've got it pretty together now.  Mickey's been living with us now since January, and it's really been kind of neat.  It seems like the both of us are more on the ball now that there is a third person living with us.

Another piece of news is that Kenny's friend Steve who is in the joint, is probably getting out soon.  We're both his parole sponsors.  When he gets out, he'll have a place to stay also.  (If anything happens to you, you'll always have a place to stay as long as we're around.)  This is our biggest news is that we've moved again.  Our new address is 20F Midway Dr., W. Mifflin, Pa 15122.  What this is, is a housing project.  We have a two bedroom apartment which consists of two bedrooms upstairs with a bath, and a linen closer.  Now, downstairs we have a huge, or a pretty big living room, a kitchen and a little office space which is actually in the living room.  Outside we have a back porch, a backyard, and a front yard.  This is all for $89.00 a month.  We didn't have too hard of a time moving, we just moved everything in Mickey's car.  We made about ten trips, but we saved a lot of money moving.  Everything is pretty well straightened up except for our bedroom.  We haven't even got the bed together.  We're getting to that today though.

I'm still working with Dollar Date.  We're waiting for Steve to get out so he can take it over though.

Oh, guess what?  Before we moved out of the apartment at Aiken, we, or Kenny called Mrs. Annolik which was the one who owned the house on Wellesley.  Ken didn't say who he was at first, but later on in the conversation he did.  She was telling Kenny how dirty the people left the place who were living there before.  And she went on telling Ken that they (us) left garbage all over the place.  All of a sudden Ken said, well, you're speaking to the person who used to live there.  Ken called to find out if we could go back there, but Annolik didn't like the idea at all, and said no, that she wouldn't take us back.

Well, I think it's time to close this letter.  Don't forget that if there's anything that we can do don't hesitate to ask.  If you're coming back to Pa., you already have a place you can come back to, and that's our place.

Waiting to hear from you.

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