Dear Hawkeye,

Somehow, every time I watch the TV show, I get a new found fondness for each new character, or the actor. I once sent Alan Alda a letter telling him how I felt about the TV show, and that I would like it very much if he would send me a signed autograph picture. Of course he's about 70 now, because the show was filmed years before I was born, but I was really happy about that letter! Once I got a response, I was kind of dissappointed.

When I got the autograph in the mail, I was so happy, and those weeks that had passed so that the letter could get to him, felt like ages then, but at that moment it felt that it had only been a second. But after that once I got it open, all that was there was the autograph. No letter saying how glad he was that he still had fans younger than him, by like 60 years.

Nothing. I was dissapointed but I kept saying that he was busy. But everytime I looked at it, it started to dawn on me that, maybe he didn't even read it. It's been a year now since I got that signed autograph picture, and I don't know where it is now. I have other hobbies instead of constantly being obsessed with M*A*S*H, but I still dearly love it.

And don't get me wrong I am still very much obsessed. Don't tell my mom this, I lost that picture of him about a couple months ago. I'm thinking that I should send him another letter, and this time I am going to be precise, I am going to tell him that I want something that he wrote, and another signed autograph picture. That's my story.