This note is obviously
crafted. Not well-crafted, sure, but certainly thought out. So many adults of a certain age think kids are missing out on the joy of writing and receiving letters. Obviously, this writer cares for her "gurl" enough to take the time to carefully construct the note's appearance and diction. For instance, she doesn't just explain that she is worried about getting suspended and having to clean the cafeteria, she chooses to use the vernacular, writing "i feel helluh stupid for being in skool" without (apparent) irony.
She is also sensitive to her reader's sensibilities. With a consideration of a 19th century novelist, who might writ "Well. I'll be d_____d!" and allow the reader to fill in the blanks so as not to offend the innocent, our writer spares her friend with a modest "hes an f__en kissing ho."
This piece might also be of interest to anthropologists and sociolinguists, who might comment, each in their own way, on the significance of the "bootykall."
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