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I’m moving this weekend, and as I’ve been going through my things, I’m finding some really funny stuff.  (See this post.)

This is an assignment I wrote for my 9th grade English class.  We had to write a letter of some sort and include certain punctuation (2 different reasons for a period, quotation marks, a semicolon, etc.).  Here’s mine:

9-4-97

Dear Mr. Smith:

Please allow me to introduce myself.  My name is Anne Ghormley, and I have a fabulous idea for a new television show.  I have based some of my ideas off of the Mary Tyler Moore show.  I took some of the personalities of the characters on that show, and moved them to people with new roles at a Health Club in the ’90s.  The club is called “A Sure Hit,” (because of the tennis attraction) as is the title of the show.  Some possible characters for this show could be: the grumpy owner, always trying to pay the bills, an extremely health-conscious woman who is the aerobics leader, the tennis pro who plays at the club, the “dumb jock” life-guard, and a guest star every so often.  I had imagined the role of the tennis pro being somewhat like Ted Baxter on the Mary Tyler Moore show.  He could always be saying “helpful” things to other players, like, “I’ll show you how to hit a beautiful serve!”  I realize that this show also needs a sympathetic character that, I guess you could say, holds things together.  I think that a desk clerk would work nicely in that role.

Thank you for taking time out to read my letter.  I hope you enjoyed my ideas; I trust you’ll get back to me about them.

Sincerely,

Anne Ghormley

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