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Attachment | Jun 17 2002

Found loose leaf paper with writing

Noticed a sheet of loose leaf paper swirling with the rest of the trash in front of my apartment building. Handwritten. Pencil. Bottom left corner torn, but otherwise unmarked. Some erasures related to line-spacing.

Stood there reading, then looked around for something else, a thing resembling an “attachment.” Found only a paper plate, or rather a styrofoam plate, a paper plate made of styrofoam, which I turned over to check for writing on the back. Nothing.

This is what was written on the sheet of paper:

1.) I am myself at my age

2.) I am dressed in everyday clothes

3.) I am in my brother’s room.

4.) My brother who is falling for a girl who I know is bad news. He’s giving up a chance for a great scholarship to a school.

5.) He said, “Randy, I think I’m in love with her.”

6.) I want him to go to school.

7.) See attached

8.) forget Susan. Are you not seeing that this will ruin your life.

9.) Yes, she could be a murderer

10.) I can’t physically force him to understand me.

11.) I really care about him, and it would kill me if that happens

12.) He is trying to convince someone that is close to him.
The height of it is at “I hand to you like a brother.” He starts to walk downstairs

13.) See attached
14.) See attached

15.) I am trying to see if he’s listening.

16.) Ugh … I wonder if he’s heard a word of it.

17.) I hope I did enough.

18.) See attached