Wylie native Kadence “Kay” Braley loves antiquing, and she enjoys visiting various antique malls around the metroplex. The 20-year-old is also a music lover and record collector, so she went looking for albums and cassettes this month at North Dallas Antique Mall near Forest and Marsh. She’s a self-described Prince fanatic, so when she found a copy of his Around the World in a Day record, she figured she’d hit the jackpot.
“It’s an original pressing from 1985,” says Braley, who waited until she got to the parking lot and climbed into her car to look inside. “To my surprise I found this letter.”
Apparently penned by a Lake Highlands High School senior that same year, the handwritten letter captures the sometimes poignant, sometimes frustrated, sometimes hopeful thoughts of a youngster on the brink of adulthood.
Braley posted photos of the letter to the Lake Highlands High School Alumni Facebook page in hopes of identifying and connecting with its author.
“I thought it was a cool thing to find,” she told me. “I thought it would be interesting to see if I could find who wrote it.”…