Friday, April 2, 1943

Dear Diary,

I finally did it. I wrote a fan letter today. But it wasn’t to Bob. I still can’t get nerve to do that. I have so many things to say to him that I don’t know what to leave out, what to say, or how to say what I decide on. This fan letter was to Garry Moore. It didn’t bother me so much to write him because I haven’t liked him quite as long as I have Bob, and not nearly as much. But if it’s the last act I perform on this earth, I’m going to write a long letter to Bob Hope, and when he reads it, he’s going to know it’s from the most avid fan he ever had.