The Unadjusted Girl, With Cases and Standpoint for Behavior AnalysisThomas, William Isaac
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The Unadjusted Girl, With Cases and Standpoint for Behavior Analysis
Thomas, William Isaac
Female juvenile delinquents -- Case studies; Young women
and that be about 7; and I want to be
back about ten if be possible. I don’t want my lady she should catch on
for she never would let me go there. Don’t say anything to your lady
that I come to N. Y. because you’re be such a one you never can keep
quiet, do you understand me? I’m sometimes so angry at you that I would
tear you to pieces cause you never keep your mouth shut. You got too big
mouth. I think when you got a sweetheart that your big enough to have
more sense. Once in a while you have not got your sense.... Sometimes I
have a right to tell you that, so don’t be angry on me and write me
right away, and tell you head you should have a good time, but not yet.
Wouldn’t you be glad to see me. Its six months since we didn’t see one
the other. Maybe we wouldn’t know one the other. I let you know when I
come.
November, 1914. Dear Friend: I received your letter and I was very glad
to hear from you. I am glad that you don’t forget me. I will forgive you
this time, but don’t do that again. I going to lose my patience. You
know what that means. I don’t have to wait very long for a letter. Dear
friend, I am going to moving pictures every Wednesday and every time
when I going out I see the nice young mens. How they love them, the
girls, and we can’t help that. I met one nice man and he want to go with
me for a good time but I realize maybe he some kind of detective, so I
told him. “What do you want, I can’t understand you.” “Oh, you know what
I mean,” [he said]. I told him, “You big slob, you leave me alone,” and
he left me. He was very nice, and he was a blond. That was a joke. Dear
friend, if you could come with me to moving pictures, there we would
meet nice mens. Wouldn’t that be nice? I have my hands so hard like a
man from hard work, so you can immagine how hard I am working. So the
rest of it I am going to write to you next time. I am writing for a call
for a lawyer and he get one too. My uncle he pay the lawyer so that
going to be for sure.
With such a Italians [as T.] we wouldn’t go any more. The lawyer want us
to have a witness and I told him we had [the Italian] and now I must
tell him we havn’t got any. That’s going to be hard again. I wrote to
the Frenchmans and the letter comes back. What can I do and I got to
give an answer to the lawyer right away. Good-by. Lots of kisses. Your
friend.
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