Dear Diary

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Lesley Arfin sent us this this morning: “Another example of a Dear
Diary fan. This girl’s life sounds AWESOME. Can’t say I didn’t
ask for this…”

Dear Lesley,

My friends as of now are doing drugs,
running away, going to rehab, and having sex with each other’s B/Fs.
One of my friends is named Cara, and she ran away the other day and
police were everywhere, at my house, at the neighbors’, up the streets—just
everywhere. She has been in lots of trouble with the police, as have
the rest of them—me being the smart one who has done no drugs and
didn’t lose my virginity at 12.

They all have 18- and 19-year-old B/Fs.
Cara got discovered and I think beat up… but she wasn’t hurt badly,
just a black eye is what I heard. I didn’t get to see her and it made
me cry. She got sent to some girl-school-jail type thing somewhere in
Indiana. She is having trouble with everything. She doesn’t do the
big stuff, like meth. She does do pot though. She has tried to stop,
but she is really addicted. I’m not allowed to hang out with her, but
I do anyway. She has never asked me to try anything cuz I know her and
will kick her butt if she does. I really want to get your book for her
and my other friend, Kristin. Kristin is doing different things, like
stealing, and meth, and she is having illegal sex with her B/F Michael.
Anything you could think of, she has done with him. We (my sister and
me) cry a lot over her, she is 14 and she is like five-foot-five, and
she weighs like only 80 pounds. She is “trying” to stop the
drugs, but it does not help when her B/F she “loves” does
them around her all the time. I just don’t know what to do about them.
I am the only friend of theirs that doesn’t do any of that stuff,
and I don’t wanna stick around with them till I crack and get pressured
into it all.

Kristin went to rehab, b/c of Cara.
See, Kyra had drugs at school and in her locker, and one of their “friends”
told them that there was a locker check that day, with the dogs. Cara
totally freaked out. She gave them to Kristin, who had a big hoodie
on. They were in class and writing notes on a journal and Cara told
her thanx for holding the drugs, and the teacher read it over her shoulder
and called our principal. Well, he called them down to the office and
had Kristin sit there while Cara yelled at the principal saying that
she didn’t have anything and pulled out her pockets—he said was
gonna have her strip and squat and cough, just in case, but he didn’t.
He called the police instead. Kristin was trying to think of how to
get rid of them and so she stuffed them into the chairs she was sitting
in. They let them go and they got halfway down the hall when our principal
started running after them yelling their names.

So they got caught. And it wasn’t
so good. Cara got sent away for five weeks and Kristin to rehab and
she never came back to school. Cara got back and got a new B/F named
Phil. Well she lost her V to him. She started climbing through her window
at night and spending all night at his place and coming back at 5 AM.
Then she got caught and they boarded her window closed. She got it undone
and started going again. Eventually Phil got kicked outta his mom’s
place and was staying at Cara’s during the day, and when Cara got home
she left the door wide open and had sex on her floor, while her parents
were home. It wasn’t smart but she never got caught, till they found
Bill sleeping in her bed during the day. Well, now Bill is in Kokamo,
Indiana, for having sex with an underage girl. Kristin is still with
Michael, Cara’s in Northern Indiana, and I’m confused about my friends.
I have some other friends, but they think I do drugs cuz I hung out
with the wrong people. I don’t know if I should try and help Cara
and Kristin or just stay away from them. I pray for them all the time,
and hope they don’t get killed over some of the shit they do. I’m
just confused and needed someone to tell.

ANON Y. MOUS