Dear,Michelle / Histoy

Dear, Michelle
November 7, 1967



Hello Michelle, remember me your old pal Christina? A couple months we have got on this boat and we are still on it. I hope that your parents are getting better from the sickness. You're problems very stressed right now? But don't worry I have the same problem. It is so crowded in the boat people are dying very often form typhoid fever and also the cholera. My mother has just passed away recently and we had to throw her overboard because there was no room on the boat. The smell is horrible. There is a bad odor coming from everybody's bodies especially the toilet stinks badly. We have to lease put 5to6 people in one bunk. We cannot go out of the dingy hold. Once in a blue moon, we get to come out and see the sun but not very often. When we got on the boat we had 500 people and now have less than 300. So many people are dying from sickness and because we barely get anything to eat or drink. Well, if I make it across the ocean I’ll write you back. I hope Britain North America is worth this terrible trip.

From:
Your dearest friend Christina.