Saturday, March 24th, 1984

Shermer High School

Shermer, Illinois, 60062

Dear Mr. Vernon, we accept the fact that we had to sacrifice a whole Saturday in detention for whatever it was we did wrong, what we did was wrong. But we think you're crazy to make us write this essay telling you who we think we are. What do you care? You see us as you want to see us. In the simplest terms and the most convenient definitions, you see us as; a brain, an athlete, a basket case, a princess, a flirt and a criminal. Correct? That's the way we saw each other at 7 o'clock this morning. We were brainwashed...