The following is an e-mail I received from my 13-year-old sister Michelle.
She's such a hoot and definitely has the Geter dramatic flair :)
Some of you may recognize
a much younger version of myself
in this tidbit of correspondence:
breathlessly enthusiastic,
yakking a mile-a-second,
and very, very abrupt.
Yeah for sisters!!
Hello, Stephanie! Guess what? I auditioned for, and got, a part in the school
play! It's called You Can't Take It With You. In away it reminds me of The
Nut Family. It's about this family called the Sycamores. Almost everyone in
the family is strange; Granpa refuses to pay his income tax; the mom, Penny,
is a horrible playwriter, and has an actress for a friend who likes to drink
; the dad, Paul, and his good friend, Mr. Depinna, like to make fireworks;
one of the daughters, Essie is terrible ballet dancer; and Essie's husband,
Ed, plays the xylophone, and each acts really strange. The only normal person
in the family is the other daughter, Alice. Alice falls in love with Tony,
the young vice-president of a company. One day, Tony brings his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Kirby (I play Mrs. Kirby) over to meet the Sycamores. After awhile,
Tony and Alice begin to think it might not work out for them to get married,
with the fact that their families are so different, but Tony decides that he
is not going to give Alice up. In the end everyone gets arrested, first of
all because Grandpa refuses to pay his income tax, and second of all because
Ed put posters up all around saying things like, "Bomb the White House".
Love, Michelle