Dally,
Maybe it's a little late to be writin' this, but Johnny though I should tell you some stuff. This is kind of a way of doing that, I guess. You'd probably think I was loosing it if you could read this, but I guess it doesn't matter much.
You know, Johnny had this idea that you were gallant, and the more I think about it, I know he was right. You were heroic in your own way. I don't think you knew it.
You used to say that if I was tough like you then things couldn't touch me. Things did touch you though. Maybe you shouldn't have been so afraid of that. The world doesn't like to leave people alone, I know that. It's a hard place. But it's still all right, you know. If you block out and harden yourself to the bad then you keep out the good too.
Maybe you wouldn't understand about the good things still out there, but maybe you could have if someone had told you. Maybe it's never too late for anyone. Like think if someone had told Bob before all this happened? Would it have changed things?
Cherry told me that things were hard everywhere. I didn't understand and I don't think you would have either, but now I know she was right. Soc or Greasers, under it all we're all just guys with our own problems and that's okay.
I think Johnny had a good idea though. You should talk to him about it if you two are together somewhere. If anyone could, I think Johnny could get the tarnish off of that gold.