Dear Eleanor Page #4

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I'm doing something for Mom.

But to do it,

I have to sell her piano.

And if she were here right now,

she'd be okay with it

because people are more important

than stuff, right?

I'll give you 5 bucks.

My mom and Marilyn Monroe

died on the same day.

I imagined Marilyn picking my mom up

like some kind of girls' night out.

Just the two of them.

The 1948 Chrysler Windsor

with a drop top in Robin's egg blue?

- The very one.

- Smile!

We're going to New York!

They'd hop into Marilyn's pink Thunderbird

and hit the road.

Didn't seem so lonely.

Seemed nice.

V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N, in the summer sun!

Put away the books, we're out of school

The weather's warm but we play it cool

We're on vacation in the summer sun!

How many miles to New York?

3,000

- You kidding me?

- No.

And here is our money.

That's all we've got

so put it in a safe spot, okay?

Holy moly, that's a lot of moolah.

I don't think I've ever seen

this much money in my whole life.

- All safe.

- Great.

Okay, I was gonna wait,

but since we're about to have

the time of our lives...

Okay, just some pictures of Mrs. Roosevelt

that I cut out of the library books

during study hall.

And I thought that we could put

some of our own pictures

- and some stuff in the back, too.

- Thanks, Max.

Okay.

Close surveillance

of the Soviet military buildup

on the island of Cuba

- within the past week...

- This place is a real dump.

...unmistakable evidence has established

the fact that a series of offensive

missile sites is now in preparation

on that imprisoned island.

The purpose of these bases

- seems to be none other...

- It just ate my quarter again!

...than to provide a nuclear strike capability

against the Western hemisphere.

And having now confirmed and completed

our evaluation of the evidence

and our decision on a course of action,

this government feels obliged to report...

A rodent just walked through the bathroom.

He did not look like the Little Elvis.

Well, who did he look like?

Like a little Jerry Lee.

Several of them include

medium range ballistic missiles.

- I think Steve will like this one.

- Capable of carrying a nuclear warhead

for a distance of more than

1,000 nautical miles.

Each of these missiles, in short,

is capable of striking Washington, D.C.,

the Panama Canal,

Cape Canaveral, Mexico City,

or any other city in the southeastern part

of the United States.

Why is he talking about missiles?

In central America,

or in the Caribbean area.

Additional sites, not yet completed,

appear to be designed for

intermediate range ballistic missiles

capable of traveling more than...

Capable of striking most of the

major cities in the western hemisphere.

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