Let me know as soon as humanly possible!
Love you (I think),
Tara
Dear Tara,
Joy said YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It was right after the show. I came looking for you to tell you, but you were talking to Chris. By the way, awesome flowers he bought you.
Thanks for making me that mix-tape. I am definitely gonna check it out.
You’re the best. Hey, maybe we can go to Uncle Chung’s all together or something. Get some crab rangoon and stuff.
I will never forget Camel Lot. That was a crazy night.
I’m probably gonna go trick-or-treatin’ in my neighborhood. Joy and I are gonna go as Daisy and her preppy boyfriend from Mystic Pizza.
Did you hear what the Winter Play is gonna be? The Diary of Anne Frank!!!!!!!! Holy shit!!!!!! What part do you want?
xoxo,
Matt (boyfriend of Joy Rebecca Bernstein!!!!!)
NOVEMBER 1991
Bloom,
I have an awesome safe. It’s fireproof!!!!
I have to clear out a bunch of my New Kids on the Block puffy stickers, but then I can lend it to you. Did you hear I got a job at Fanny Farmer Candy Shop? I can get you free gummy bears and Sour Patch Kids. I think it’s the best candy store in town, but some people are arrogant and only get their candy when they go into the city with their families.
You were so good in Grease! You should be a movie star! You already look like Keanu Reeves from the “Rush, Rush” video, and that combined with how talented you are equals so much!! So many people in our grade make fun of you for being in theater, but they’re just jealous. They all watch TV and movies. Where do they think those actors come from? THE THEATER!! I read that Eric Stoltz was in a lot of plays. And Christian Slater!
I love earth science! Mr. Sudmeyer is such a nice teacher, don’t you think? I think it’s awesome that I share a lab table with you. I’m writing this as you dissect an earthworm. Oh my god, Joey McIntyre is single!!! I read it in Tiger Beat. He only lives, like, 30 minutes from here. Do you think I’d ever have a chance with him? I know a million girls want to marry him, but I love him for him. And his awesome voice. Do you still like New Kids on the Block or not really ’cuz we’re at South High now? Either way, I still think you’re a great actor, Bloom.
Thanks for telling Andy Mackamolen that he was a jerk for calling me Thunder Thighs. He is sooooo mean, and it’s not like he’s gorgeous like you and the New Kids and Eric Stoltz and Christian Slater.
I heard you and Joy Bernstein are a couple right now? That makes so much sense. You are both so talented and cute. I LOVE JOY’S HAIR! Oh my god, she looks like the girl from Mystic Pizza and Satisfaction. You guys make the perfect couple. Do you think I should be on stage crew for the Winter Play? I hope you get a lead part again.
Okay, gotta pass you this note now that you’re done dissecting that poor worm.
Good luck,
Pammy Shapiro
P.S. Why do you need the safe?
Dear Pammy,
Thank you so much for lending me your safe. That is awesome of you.
I still think New Kids are alright. And I bet Joey McIntyre would like you a lot. You’re funny and cool and nice.
Andy Mackamolen is such a JERK! He always makes fun of everyone. You don’t have thunder thighs, Pam. You’re tall! Why is being different such a big deal around here?!
Besides, don’t listen to the mean people. I don’t. I don’t give a crap what anyone says about me. If I did, then I would be too afraid to go for my dreams. And if your dream is to meet Joey McIntyre, then you should go for your dream. So many people make fun of stuff ’cuz they’re afraid.
Yeah, you should definitely try for stage crew. It’s fun being involved in plays in any aspect.
You know I love gummy bears and Sour Patch Kids. Since first grade. Wow, we have gone to school together for a wicked long time.
Joy is amazing. I think we’ll be together for all of high school, even when she graduates a year before me. And hopefully we will get married.
Ummmm, I just need the safe for some writing I’m doing. Thanks for lending me it.
Matt Bloom
Tara,
I know you listen to your answering machine messages religiously, so I’m fairly certain you have gotten all of mine. But just in case you didn’t get any of the seven of them, I will tell you here what I said . . . on all seven of them.
Stacey was holding my hearts-and-stars purse for a total of, I don’t know, one minute while I ran to the bathroom.
While she loves our matching purses, she does not want one. Not sure if that was your concern, but Stacey has her own style and never copies anyone else’s. Not that she doesn’t love what we made but she (A) just isn’t the kind of person who does things that other people do and (B) has so much respect for our lifelong friendship and thinks it is, her words here, “beautiful that you and Tara have each other and reflect your friendship in your purses.”
I hope everything is okay at your house. I’m assuming that is why you haven’t gotten back to me and why you blew off our night with Stacey. Not that I want anything bad to be happening at your house, but I just hope you’re not icing me out because Stacey was holding my purse.
I would
