Dear mom and dad,            May 9, 1971 Sunday

Happy mother's day, mom. Hope its a good day for both of you. Good sermon I bet.

Flowers out and pretty? Some tree outside is in bloom-right there below and in front of the window. White flowers. Bouquet clumps. I may be a cherry tree. Some wild type you see. It has that sort of shiny bark with rings of scars around ---

There is a maple tree near by it. In the winter ^{with the} winds they clap their branches and twigs on one another.

I got a C+ on last english paper. "Excellent ideas" but too much for me to handle well he said. I didn't do a very good job in resolving the conflict I presented or setup. ^Actually I didn't even know I was conflicted.

Anyway there are many important things other than being a journalist for Time Magazine. It would be nice to be the greatest in everything though But for that have to develop it all at the same rate or one trait will maybe overbalance another. 

I ran at about 11 to 11:30 this morn. just had to get out

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So how's the weather. Lots of "April" showers. It'll probably be another one of those wet cool summers They are all right by me.

Got back in Wmspt [Williamsport] at 7:05 lucky to be alive. At least he was pretty good driver. He wanted to get back by 7:30 to see his fiancé who was coming to see him.

Bye Bye

Love,

Mike