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@ : © . we . ' SF 7-855 CHW: cnw : "Hhis is an open letter to the people of your area, written when I recently traveled thru your town, and delivered by one of our people living near you: "The assumption by people thruout the country - your people are typical - that I could have ‘changed' so quickly into Tania is pure b--~s--. It denies upper middle class children of affluence do not already have all they need to make the change: emotional nothingness, boredom, no real way of being needed or changing the situation for oppressed people. More specifically, that. assumption denies I could have loved Cujo as I did. It's as if the locals still believe purpose is taught in Sunday School, and not in the streets and that love is learned in a Julie Andrews' flick, and not in a Situation of where one's belief was tested. "What underlies these assumptions is like a poison ivy leaf - there is a shiny and dull side. Both infect. The itch can spread. Some get a worse case than others. | "One radical change can occur as quickly as it has appeared to have done, as it has appeared to have done, as quickly as the L.A. flames that gave lives meaning. Two. That change occured before the ‘kidnap’ on Feb. 4th. "I knew Cujo months before; how long, I won't say now. From my father's viewpoint, I guess I did have ‘bad taste’. But then Hearst never knew gentle Cujo, just as he never knew me. Just as S.W. (I can't remember) never did... It was so pitiful, those last months, watching him know me less. ..c- "Kidnap. Who is the kidnapper? Who is kidnapped? -When capitalism takes us for a ransom (a college degree, all the middle class rituals) are we not murdered in return by the money-getting death-in-~life that breeds oppression., "How is the ransom to be paid? By whom? The late- night TV show terms are turned around now: The pigs donate bullets like money thinking they ‘paid’ their part; the parents are relieved their daughber is ‘now a criminal', as they suspected...and the loca lé, Like you who lived near Cujo.,. you heave a sigh. 80 ok cae or ae Oat wet Feed Boe act ae ety ars he “= ys vt Sian e tS : re al i NR BR os we fen pine aga