2nd Letter from "Squeaky"

“Shannon-
No. Stationary for our use isn’t allowed through the mail. We have to buy or make it. (It’s too bad because I like your little cards). And we cannot receive money here. All incoming inmate funds come to us through a central processing place in Iowa which carries our computerized accounts. The address may be on line through gov. but I don’t know. Otherwise, I’d need to send it but because you are just getting a start in an expensive big city, I’d say you need what you have. Maybe you have lived in NY for years. My father grew up in Brooklyn but he didn’t strike me as a typical New Yorker (if any types exist).
Every six months here, we must move to a different room. Security reasons. (Not our security of course.) It’s not what most of us want but it has a wake-up aspect to it. We made a move yesterday, so I’m just getting back to normal, but I wanted to answer your letters so that you wouldn’t send anything else I couldn’t have. If you sent stationary, I didn’t get it. It’s probably still in the mail room and has been set to the side along with whatever other inmate letters contained what’s called “nuisance contraband.” They don’t toss it out; they are required to send it back to you but whatever you’ve written also gets held and we may not receive it for weeks. I did get your picture letter  -both are good. I can get any type of photo except Polaroids (and porn- no nudity either) and 8x10 is the largest, although I wouldn’t ask for photos that big. We’re working w/small spaces here. I’d be glad to get photos of Blue and me and any of you and your world that you’d like to send. (I can’t own more than 25 loose photos.) The rules are picky and pecky specks that are hard to keep up with let alone remember to relate to correspondents. I need sleep now so I’ll resume this letter…”
Page 2:
“I ran across these definitions, word origins and found them worth sending ~ especially the one re: St. Audrey. Also enclosed is part or a print out re: Owen and Mzee explained in the text. Two pages of an interview of me I liked ~ done by an independent.”

(I will post all 3 at a later date- no time now, sorry folks ;)

“No one calls me Squeaky. Friends don’t anyway. Periodically someone will call me that, thinking they are on familiar terms with me but really just tipping me off that they have read about me and probably assume that they know a great deal more than they do. About my life.
I go by Lynette in here; I went by Lyn til 1968. The 83 year old blind owner of the [Spahn] ranch we lived on began calling me Squeaky when I struck up regular visits with him. He renamed almost every living thing on that ranch. He was NOT a country fellow and not shabbily dressed and not a lecher.
I’m too sleepy to continue.
Until next time,
Lynette”

And then the p.s. that made me gasp and freeze for a moment:

“P.S.- I took the bullet out of the chamber before my walk to the park.”

More to come…