Part 1 (1/2)

The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer

Jennifer Lynch

As seen by Jennifer Lynch

Based upon characters created by David Lynch and Mark Frost

for the Television series, 'Twin Peaks'

July 22, 1984

Dear Diary, My nao, I officially turned twelve years old! It is July 22, 1984, and I have had such a good day! You were the last gift I opened and I could hardly wait to come upstairs and start to tell you all about myself and my family You shall be the one I confide in thethat happens, everything I feel, everything I desire And, every single thing I think There are sos to you

Anyhen I ca streah the house, and even Dad put on a party hat and tooted away on a kazoo for a while I didn't think Donna and I would ever stop laughing!

Oh, Donna is my very best friend in the whole world Her last name is Hayward, and her father, Dr Hayward, delivered o today! I can't believe I finally made it Mom cried at the table because she said before I know it I'll be a grown-up woet rown-up in no ti me stuffed animals for my birthday!

Today was just the way I wanted it to be, with only Donna and Mom and Dad there And Jupiter, my cat, of course For breakfast we had apple pancakes, which are h toast

Donna gave me the blouse I saw in theat Horne's Departht it with her allowances because she was saving all of the time and wouldn't tell me why It's the most beautiful blouse you've ever seen! It is white and silky and has tiny embroidered roses all over it, but not so many that it looks bad It's just perfect On Donna's birthday, I' extra special too

My cousin Madeline, Maddy for short, is visiting to to build a fort in the woods and camp out if Mom will let us I know Dad will He likes the woods as ht I had a dream that Dadtree outside the ith two songbirds nesting there I'll be back in ato me from downstairs He says he has a surprise! I'll tell you everything when I get back!

Love, Laura

July 22, 1984, later

Dear Diary, You will never ever believe what just happened! I went downstairs and Dad told Moet in the car and not to ask any questions until we got to where ere going Of course, Mohtwould slip out of Dad's mouth, but it didn't I just kept quiet so that I wouldn't lose my surprise When we pulled up to The Broken Circle Stables, I knew! Daddy bought me a pony! Diary, he is so beautiful, much more beautiful than I could ever have dreamed His colors are cinna and sweet Mo Dad how heDad said it would ruin the surprise if she knew, and he's right

Mom nearly had a heart attack when she saw s to find out if it was a boy or a girl I barely had to look to find out that it was a boy Like I've never seen one of those before Moirl the way she thinks she does, hmmm?

Back to my pony I decided his name should be Troy, like the pony in Mrs Larkin's photo book Zippy, orks at the stables, said he wouldletters, and he'll hang it right in front so that everyone will know his na to ride, but in two h the fields! Today I walked hiht theave me Troy loved all of it Before I left him, I whispered in his warm, soft ear that I would see him tomorrow and that I would write all about him, here, in ot, Maddy will see him too!

On the way home from the stables Dad said that Troy and I have the saift to so So happy birthday to Troy too!

I'lad I don't knohere he came from, because this way, it is almost as if Heaven sent hi day and tonight I will sleep very well, dreaether I airl in the world

Love, Laura

PS I hope BOB doesn't coht

July 23, 1984

Dear Diary, It is very late at night and I can't sleep I have had night altogether I figure Maddy will be tired from her ride out here and ant to take a nap toht when I sleep, my dreams won't be so dark

One of the, and I was afraid Mom would coht now, and she wouldn't understand that She always co Matilda” to ht when I have bad drea to ein Mohtened me sothrough the woods out by the Pearl Lakes, and there was this very strong wind, but only around me It was hot The wind And about twenty feet away froe, callused hands They were very rough and he held the His beard didn't blow in the wind because the as only around led theot closer to h I didn't want to at all because he frightened me so much

He said, ”I have your cat,” and Jupiter ran behind him and off into the woods like a little white speck on a piece of black paper He just kept singing and I tried to tell hio home and I wanted Jupiter to come with me, but I couldn't talk Then he lifted his hands up in the air very, very high, like he was growing bigger and taller every minute, and as his hands went up, I felt the wind around ht that he was letting o because he could read my mind, at least it felt that way And so when he stopped the ith his hands like that, I thought he was letting o home

Then I had to look down because there was this heat between s, not nice wars open so they would cool So that they would stop burning, so so hot And they started spreading by the to snap off ofto die this way, and hoill anyone understand that I tried to keep s closed, but they burned and I couldn't And then the man looked at , ”You'll coain but I couldn't, and I tried to move but I couldn't do that either, and he said, ”Laura, you are ho I feel trapped there and so frightened But nohen I look at what I just wrote, it doesn't seem so scary Maybe I'll write down all of my dreams from now on so that I won't have to be afraid of theht last year I had such an awful dream that the whole next day in school, I couldn't work Donna thought I was going nuts because every time she said my name or touched oing nuts, like Nadine Hurley or anything, but I was still feeling like I was in a dream I don't really remember it, but all I knoas in the dream I was in a lot of trouble because I hadn't passed this weird test where you have to help a certain number of people across this river in a boat, and I couldn't do it, because I just wanted to swi, and so they sent someone after me, to touch uess it's no loss

I'row up Someday it will happen and I'll be the only person who canI do

I'll talk to you to pretty tired

Laura

July 23, 1984

Dear Diary, Cousin Maddy will be here any minute Dad went to pick her up at the station by himself because Mom wouldn't let hio No drea out to her and then I hooted like an owl! I'm so embarrassed She said she caain, and then she says I giggled and rolled over and went back to sleep I hope she doesn't tell anyone about this She always tells people things like that e have dinner parties with the Haywards or so It always starts with, ”Laura did the sweetest, ht she said, right in front of everyone, that I had sleptwalked into the kitchen one night just before she was going to bed I took off all my clothes, stuffed theo to the stove at the Haywards' when Donna and I help with dinner, Mrs Hayward makes a joke about whether or not I realize that the stove is a stove and not a washi+ng ht she told that, so I forgave her But if she tells anyone I hooted, I'll just die I don't suppose there is ever a ti a source of constant embarrassment to their children Mine are no exception

Maybe if I could stop doing stupid things into tell people

More later

Laura

(hoot, hoot)

July 27, 1984

Dear Diary, I have so much to tell you These words come to you from the inside of a fort that Donna and Maddy and I built Dad and Mo as we stayed just out back We used wood that Ed Hurley gave us, and Dad haether Donna says that if a stor it would stand, no matter what happened

Maddy is so pretty now She's sixteen years old and I'm so jealous of her life! I wish I were sixteen! She has a boyfriend at home that she already misses, and he called her at the house earlier just to ht Dad teased her about how cutesy she was on the phone, but Maddy didn't mind Donna thinks that when she has a steady boyfriend, she'll probably be forty years old and going deaf, I told her she was crazy because boys already like both of us, we're just too so out with them I wonder what it will be like when someone besides my parents loves me, and if he will call when I travel to ht