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I have got

a new pen pal

her name is Petra

I can not pronounce

her last name

Umleuf

If I could

I wouldn't be

writing this

I believe

she doesn't speak

english

she had better

that sounds like a

threat

I know

I don't speak German

she is German

West German Precisely

I can not pronounce the part

where she lives

the colony is called

Koln

Cologne

who would want to live

in a place that sounds like

a perfume factory

a factory

yes

a factory

she would

I suppose

well

better her than me.......

(written late Sept.1986)