I don’t know how to get this letter to you but I’m your ma and I want you to come home. I don’t know why you run away but we gone talk about all that when you get back. Cause I run away too but I was way older than you and I wanted to marry your daddy but didn’t nobody want me to marry him. They said he was a bum and I guess he was but for long time he was more than that. But you really just need to come on home. I won’t hit you no more and we ain’t got to argue no more. We can get along. Cause I know why you ran away. I know we ain’t got no nice things and I can’t buy you the nice things the other kids had. But that ain’t my fault. I know it’s hard for you to live with somebody like me. But I’m gonna try to do better. I’m gonna try to get better. I been talking to Jewel. Or I gess I should say Jewel been talkin to me. She told me I gotta get a boyfriend and I just laugh at my little sister ’cause its hard for me to imajin a boyfriend now. She told me I gotta do something with my life. Something I like to do and something I like that make me feel good. So I guess when she said all that was first time I knew I must feel bad then.