12/17/1903
Kitty Hawk, NC, USA
Dear Future Me,
I did it. I DID IT! I FLEW today! I freaking flew! Will there ever be anything that can top that? Alright alright, the Wright Brothers are the ones who actually flew, but it's almost the same thing, right? They built an airplane and you should just see it! It's like this huge mechanical motorized bird that you ride around on and can control! It's so much heavier than the air; I still don't understand how it's possible. Honestly, it's like something out of a kid's fairy-tale.
Nevertheless though, here we are. We have an airplane. A real working airplane. Wilbur and Orville Wright built it themselves and today it finally worked! Wilbur flew it for almost a whole minute at 852 feet in the air! Just like an actual BIRD! Just imagine what these things will be like by the time YOU read this. People will be able to fly for miles, won't they? Maybe one day we can fly them to the moon, or to other planets even. Ha! I bet you don't even need planes in your day, do you? You probably have these flying shoes of some sort. Well whatever you have in your fancy future world, it started today. I've got to get my hands on one of these things. I hope someone invents a time machine soon just so that I can see what these things become in a few hundred years! Can't wait!
Sincerely, America
America stared at his letter, a bit crumpled now. Well his infatuation with aircraft had started pretty early on, hadn't it? Heh, those things were still awesome. Not as awesome as rocket propelled shoes, but cool. Even after all these years, nothing was quite as exciting as speeding down the runway and feeling your stomach drop as the ground falls out from underneath you. Now of course, he'd get some puzzled looks due getting this excited over a plane, maybe even some mothers herding their kids away from the crazy guy who's obsessed with them. Even if he didn't show it (that much) anymore, he was still just as excited about these things as he was back in 1903. Some things just never change. The time machine on the other hand... still a work in progress. One day though. One day.
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