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This is from my dad.
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Hey Dork-Faces!!! (Michelle & Jan)
Obviously you’ve either had a series of conversations or some sort of automatic awareness of “Stuff for the 12 to 16 year old crowd” that I’m not privy to. Look at this stupid email you wrote. No suggestions, just a chronicle of what you’ve bought. That doesn’t help me the least teeny bit. There was never any danger of me buying a “Webkinz” because I have no idea of what that is!!! Dork-Face!!!
What I need is a list of items (starting with the least expensive) that are applicable to Diana and Missy. I’m not worried about Claire because at this age she’s happy with wood. I’ll just buy her clothes cuz it’s freezing up there. Size 12 months you say. I didn’t know that was a size. You better be right about this.
I just saw Diana but I didn’t get any better feel for the kind of stuff she’d be interested in because I don’t know what “Things” are available. When I was that age, girls I knew were interested in “Brownie” cameras, “Etch-O-Sketch”, Kaleidoscopes, Hula Hoops, and maybe wood (farm girls). I’m asking that you update each of the aforementioned items with a suitable modern manifestation. For instance, maybe a newer, hip-er version of “Etch-O-Sketch” could be something like “Hayao Miyazaki’s animation starter kit” or “Auto-Cad Pro E”. I don’t even want to know what kind of perverse contraption Hula Hoop has morphed into and it would be great if she had some interest in wood inasmuch as building my house has produced a surplus. The point is, I have no idea of what “Things” are in the available pool of “Things”. I need a list of “Things”. I need names! Items! THINGS!!!
The same is quadrupley true for Missy. Given the current state of affairs with America’s youth, I figure she could be interested in absolutely anything from handbags to handguns. I’m hoping she likes wood. I have absolutely no idea whatsoever of what might appeal to a teenage girl. And no, I’m not getting her a teenage boy. I need teenage girl “Things”. I need names! Items! THINGS!!! (This list must not include $500.00 cameras or $500.00 dollar anything else.)
As to Michelle and George. Come up with a cash payoff amount. I can’t buy items and haul em up there on the plane. You’re getting cash and the end of the previous paragraph is just as “way true” in this paragraph.
I don’t know who else is coming up there for “Wilderness Christmas” in addition to “Not-Jan” but if it’s not too late, I vote that whoever’s in that set of individuals known as adults or “not kids” be spared the military industrial complex induced brainwashing of “Gift Giving”. In fact I state here and now that the best thing I could get for Christmas is nothing. I hate gifts. And those saccharin-sweet twits down there in Whoville. Just a suggestion.
As for Jan’s list, HAHAHAHAHHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA ……….HA!