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- Aug. 20, 1990: Kids Write The Darnedest Things
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Aug. 20, 1990 Showdown
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- GRAPEVINE, Page 17
- Kids Write the Darnedest Things
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- <p>By Paul Gray/Reported by David Ellis
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- <p> When Scholastic Voice magazine decided last spring to
- sponsor an exchange of correspondence between its U.S. readers
- and newly liberated teenagers in East Berlin, more than 10,000
- young Americans sent in letters. But Scholastic staffers
- sifting through the outgoing mail sometimes gulped at the
- messages. "Dear Whoever, My life is full of danger in this
- small town," wrote a 13-year-old Iowa boy. A young Californian
- confided that "Los Angeles is a great place if you happen to
- like earthquakes and smog" and added, "Every one of us lives
- their own hell from day to day." On the brighter side, there
- were mash notes: "If you're a girl, send me a picture of you.
- The girls in our school are immature and physically repulsive."
- And good old American inquisitiveness popped up: "Well, do you
- like what's going on in your country, or would you like to keep
- it the way it is? You know, like Nazis. Whoa dude!"
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