May 7, 1975 (Letter from Ken and Denise)

Hi!  It's been awhile since we wrote, and all of a sudden, you came up in a conversation about biodecision.  Kenny said that that's how he met you.  He told me all about how you were working together on this, and when everyone started asking questions, you blamed everything on Kenny. That's why nobody likes him down there.

So tell me how your trip was over in California?  Did you have a good time over there?  Was there good weather down there?

Well, it's only one more month till the kid comes.  We're hoping it comes on June 2nd, since that's the day we got married.  The way I figure it out, it would definitely be June 2.

Guess what?  Kenny got busted about two weeks ago, and this is what happened.  On April 14th Kenny went downtown to do a couple things, on his way home, or before he came home, he stopped in and got some M.D. 20-20.  When he was drinking the wine, he got in a little hassle with a cop and the cop busted him and Kenny called the magistrate everything, so the magistrate gave him 90 days in the county jail.  I went down to the magistrate and gave him a big sob story, and he lowered it to letting him out that very same day.  Boy, we were so happy.  We walked over the sixth street bridge and down tot he water and grassy area where we tried to roll a jay of grass I had brought with me.  I had brought some THC pills which we both took two of.  It didn't hit me until about 1/2 hour later.  Boy was I fucked up.  I don't think I want to take them anymore.  Kenny had to take about 6 of them before he got off on them.

You know that dude we told you about who was living with us, well he's not any more.  We got him busted, and now he's in jail (county).  We found out, (that's after he was busted), that he was fucking around with us.  That's like he was cheating on us as far as money is concerned, telling people these stupid lying ass stories about us that people believed.  When Kenny was in the county jail, Mickey was going to keep him in there, and planning to kill me by cutting my head off, so we had ho choice other than killing him which we weren't in to doing.  Well, Mickey is gone, and we have two other beautiful people living with us.  One male, age 21, and one female, age 16 1/2.  This is a whole new family which is really nice.

Guess what, we're going to be on KQV radio station this week.  We haven't listened to it yet, so we can't fill you in on what's happened as of now.  During the past month we were contacted by WEWS from Cleveland, Ohio, which we were on air at that time.  We were also on the air with KQV.  (I was just on, cause Kenny was in jail.)  I was so excited I kind of blew the whole call.  I could have said a lot more about Dollar Date, but I didn't.  If you want to hear it, they've got it on tape down at the station.

Well, I better close now I'm getting kind of tired getting punched in the stomach from the insidse.

Kenny says hi, and be cool.

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.