It's often hard for us to consider that the people we raise to stardom were, for a time in their lives, fairly normal.

No matter what I feel about Hillary, this is a very interesting dip into the pool of that time in her life.

While it's interesting to read Hillary's 40-year old words, I can't help but think how really too bad it is that technology has dumbed down our thoughts and feeling to short-hand emails and evn shrtr txt mssgs.

What woud the world be today if our young people had to sit down and think of what to write to each other rather than simply tap out glib and empty garbage? What would they be like?

In the ’60s, a Future Candidate Poured Her Heart Out in Letters

They were high school friends from Park Ridge, Ill., both high achievers headed East to college. John Peavoy was a bookish film buff bound for Princeton, Hillary Rodham a driven, civic-minded Republican going off to Wellesley. They were not especially close, but they found each other smart and interesting and said they would try to keep in touch.