Escape Pod 858: Pen Pal (Part 1 of 2)

Pen Pal By Grant Canterbury December Third, 1996 Meliari Thulissia General Delivery Tharsis Station Dear Meliari, Hello!! My name is Mary and I am nine years old. I got your name for a pen pal and they said you were the first pen pal on Mars. This is the first time I have written a letter to Mars to. So I will tell you about me and how things are here in Oregon. And if you can tell me about yourself and what Mars is like that would be great! I am interested in mars but I have never been there yet. There is a book in the library that has pictures, I like the one with the little boats and orange trees on the grand canal. I mean the trees are orange not that they have oragnes. Here our trees are green except in fall. Right now they have lost their leaves.