Summer and swimming pools

Summer vacation can be fun except sometimes at the swimming pools.  This letter relates some events from the summer of 1997; the transcription is below each page.

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July 31 / 97

Dear Charlin',

I am having

a nice vacation.  Are you?  As I

said before in my other letter what is

your telephone number.  I will be

happy to hear from you.

I got this stationery 

for Christmas and it is the first time

I used it.  Did you have any exciti

ng experiences this summer.  Please 

don't mind the hand writing it is 

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about twelve - thirty in the morning

I went swimming up

North Attleboro Pool once this summer.

The deepest end is 11 feet.  But there 

are ropes to separate the diving and the 

swimming.  In the /t/h/e swimming

part the water is 5 feet at the highest 

place.  And as I said before the highest

in the diving section is 11 feet.

You can't go past the

ropes to swim if you do you will 

be put out.

And today I went swim-

ming up East Side Pool.  There (Ther) aren't

any ropes in this pool because the

deepest end is about five feet.  There 

isn't and diving at East Side

Pool.

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3.

The boys up there are fresh.

They dunk you, and dunk, you and

splash you, and chase you.  You really 

have a hard time swimming or trying 

to swim.  Well I hope you have a 

vacation, as I hope the last of your vaca-

tion is nice.  Because you have less 

than two months to enjoy yourself.

Well please write soon!

Love

Katherine

Gareau  C//

P.S.

As I said before

please excuse the

hand writing.

C//

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The two public swimming pools that are mentioned in the letter are located in North Attleboro, Massachusetts and on the East Side in Providence, Rhode Island.

The letter paper shows the effects of time and oxidation.

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This letter, from 1997, was found inside the Spring 1954 edition of Reader's Digest Condensed Books.  The front cover of that edition flourishes a floral leafy pattern:  

Reader's Digest Condensed Books Spring 1954

The volume contains:  "The Night of the Hunter", "God and My Country", "Not as a Stranger", "The Best Cartoons from France", and "The Young Elizabeth".