Thursday Dec. 17th, 1953

Hi Ila,

Now please don’t get mad for being so tardy on answering your last letter. (Am I forgiven?) If not, I guess I’m just wasting both our times by doing this. You must be going steady by now huh? The reason that I didn’t answer your last letter was that I started to go with someone, but I guess she just isn’t my type. Wants her way all the time, and thinks that I shouldn’t hang around with my brother and some of the guys. She is starting to give me a pain. Gee whiz Ila, I just don’t know what in hang to do with myself, honestly. I just seem to get everyone mad at me, I seemed to T you off at me, the first time I came home. So I guess you just don’t care about me anymore. I just don’t blame you for feeling that way because I brought everything on myself. How are you doing in school now Hon? I imagine you must be pretty tired of it by now. I know I feel the same way about work. Sometimes I don’t even feel like going to work. Which is most of the time. I wanted to go see the Detroit Lions play for the Championship with Cleveland but again no soap. I have to also buy more Christmas Cards, that bright Brother of mine used up every darn one of mine. He seems to Like to quarel with me all the time. We used to get along so well, just like you and I. But I guess my laziness isn’t an excuse. Is it? Say Ila what grade are you in now? Just as I have a good idea about age difference and so on. I ask too much of a girl though, so you probably wouldn’t like me at all. Oh so much for now, I’ll write more later honestly.

With Lots of Love, Bob