As his career unfolded, Michael Jordan became a superstar, an MVP, a champion, an icon, a brand unto himself, and perhaps the greatest athlete we’ve seen in the past 50 years. But back in high school, he was just a skinny kid with bad grammar, trying to pass the time in chemistry class by writing a love letter to his girlfriend.
A High School Love Letter From Michael Jordan
Witness the letter uncovered at Letters of Note this afternoon. An excerpt:
How are you and your family doing, fine I hope. I am in my Adv. Chemistry class writing you a letter, so that tell you how much I care for you. ... I want you to know that my feeling for you has not change yet. ← (joke) I am finally getting use to going with a girl much smaller than I. I hope you my hint. Well I have spent my time very wisely by write to you. I hope you write back soon. Well I must go, the period is almost over. See you next time around, which I hope comes soon.
BAWWWWWW.
Later in life, he’d have a team of writers at Widen + Kennedy to make him sound like the coolest, wisest human being on earth, and a whole entourage that he used to steal other people’s girlfriends. Slighty less adorable. But back in chemistry class? MJ was as clumsy as the rest of us.
(HT: @Quickish)
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