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To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Thriller

How is the potty training going?

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Quick Styles

…?

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Pink rugs

Hi seemed overrated.

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Bubbles

My girlfriend is insane!

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Jasmine

So is mine.

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Blue petals

Seriously! Have you lost your mind?

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Dimes

I think I lost it under one of the couch cushions.

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Grub

Rubba dub dub, what’s for dinner?

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Blue

Um, that doesn’t rhyme? And hot pockets. And corn.

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Interpol

Wow. That doesn’t make us sound like high schoolers at all.

You will not believe what I found last night.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Trojan Man!

A used condom?

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Figure Skating

Umm… No. I tend to throw those away.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Headphones

What did you find?

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Stalking

You remember a few years ago at Christmas when I gave you the teapot with all of our inside jokes in it? Well, I also had a Christmas card in it, but I took it out while you were looking through the pot.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Graduations

I thought I was missing a card! I’d seen it earlier and when I went to look for it, it was gone! What did it say?

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Scribble Scrabble

It said:

Pam,

Christmas is the time where you tell people how you feel. I know we’ve been really good friends for a while, and maybe I’m doing a horrible thing by telling you this, but I can’t help it. I’m not expecting anything to come of it (and it’s fine if nothing does), but I just need you to know. I’m in love with you. I have been for a long time, and even though I’ve tried to do the honorable thing and move on, I can’t. At least not until you know how I feel. I’m pretty sure you do know. I can’t imagine you not. If you didn’t already, look back at our relationship, and maybe you’ll be able to see what apparently everyone else can already. The only thing I ask of you is that you be brutally honest with me. I need to know how you feel, so I can move on, and let go. I love you, and I don’t want anything to happen to our friendship, but I can’t keep going like this. Please, just let me know.

Jim.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Jesus

Can I have a copy of that?

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Emily had her baby!!

Sure. It belongs to you.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Zola Warrior Princess

Who’s Emily?

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: You mean Xena

Emily? Oh, just some woman that had a baby. I don’t even know her. I just made her up. Her daughter’s name is Kevin.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Thanksgiving

What am I going to do with you?

Mom wants to know how many I’m bringing for Thanksgiving dinner?

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Banana

That you will never know!

That’s funny, my mom just asked how many I’m bringing for Christmas.

Your answer: There will be 2 of you.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Oranges!

2 for Thanksgiving, check!

2 for Christmas.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Norton Anti-Virus

Wow, alternating holidays already. We’re hitting the big time, Halpert.

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: 1:35 AM

We sure are, Beesly.

You know what I’m ready for?

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: The Bible

Me to pop the question?

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Stencils

Don’t you dare! That’s my job.

Question 21.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Rings

Oh, right… Well, get on that, Halpert. Wink. I’m just kidding. Kind of.

About that…

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Coffee

What do you mean, about that?

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Chuck E Cheese

I don’t think I want to ask Question 21… Ever.

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Californication

Explain yourself.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Red hair

Oh, come on, Jim. Can you honestly say you want the game to end? I mean, so much has happened since we started it. It’s been like a little piece of magic, and I’ve loved being able to ask you things and know I’m going to get an answer, whether it was “my question” or not… It was just nice. And we’ve gotten to be really close through it, I think… I mean, you know a lot about me. More than anyone else does. And I just don’t want to see that change, and I’m scared it might if we cut this game… Which is why I don’t want to end it by asking the last question.

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Swampstock Festivals

That’s sweet, but…

Suck it up, Beesly. It’s part of the rules of the game.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Fuche family reunion

No, it’s not. There is no rule that says my next question has to come within a timely manner. Or at all, for that matter.

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Potpourri

I want you to ask the question. Otherwise, there’s no point to this game. Haven’t you ever seen Jumanji?

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Hey Jude

Jim, the questions aren’t going to come alive and stampede through Scranton.

No point to the game? You really can’t see all of the “point” this game had?

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: General Robert Patton

They might!!

Why would you ever think that just because we were in this game when we started talking more openly that would stop if the game ended? That’s ludicrous.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Watermelon

Well, then, don’t stand behind Kevin.

I don’t think it’s all that ludicrous. This game forces honest and open communication. Would you honestly have told me all of your feelings about me without this game? Maybe. But I probably wouldn’t have told you. And I like telling you things. Sometimes I’m just too scared. And my feelings are not ludicrous, Jim.

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Yertle the Turtle

Good one.

I think I would have been honest with you. In time. And you’re right, your feelings aren’t ludicrous. But I really don’t see what you’re so afraid of. I have no intention of not telling you things just because we’re not playing a game, Pam.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Beach sex

Fine. You tell me why you’re so hurt I would even suggest not putting out the 21st question.

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Popcorn

Because. It’s the rules of the game. You ask 21 Questions. Otherwise, it would be called 20 Questions.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Wireless Networking

Okay, then why don’t you just refer to it as 20 Questions. I’m not budging on this, Dwight.

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Watches

Fine. But I’m not happy about it.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Easter bunny

You don’t have to be. What changed your mind?

And I’ll make it up to you, don’t worry.

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Run Forrest Run!

The Dwight comment.

How are you going to make it up to me?

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: STDs

A lifetime of sex.

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Boobs

You should have led with that…

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: NBC

Next time, I will... Lesson learned.

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject Buffalo chicken sandwich

I have a funny something… Would you believe that every time someone asks me to do something, I mentally go through your schedule to make sure it’s not one of the days we can be together?

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Arizona State

That’s kind of sad… I do the same thing though… I feel bad knowing that you do it, though. You do it because you want to spend time with me, right? Not because you feel obligated to check with me before you do something?

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Attics

Oh, yeah, that’s definitely it. I just can’t stand the thought of being apart from you. Ever.

Have you checked your purse recently?

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Airport security

Aww, that was sweet. In a creepy stalker kind of way.

I have “checked my purse” but I didn’t find anything of significance.

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Jenna Fischer is so hot

Did you check your key ring?

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Who is that?

Oh, no... Not yet.

One more key than normal. What’s this key to? Your heart?

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Triple Chocolate Chip cookies

You already have that one, silly. It’s the key to a house.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: camera phones

Which house might that be, Mr. Halpert?

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Come here Staples! Here boy!

Dwight’s.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Planners

Oh my gosh. How do you… What…. Oh my gosh.

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Done

Well, he had one house key on his key chain. Angela had two, so I took the one that matched off of hers (how like her to not give him one). Now we both have a copy of Dwight’s house key. I searched the public records and found his address. What should we do?

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Secrets

You want to actually DO something?

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Mommy and Me gymnastics

Well, yeah. Why else would we have his keys?

Do you think he has a bank in his house?

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Stonewall

No, I don’t think he has a bank in his house, Jim. I also don’t think we’ll look a tad suspicious buying ski masks and toy guns at the local CVS.

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Mugs

I already bought those... We should at least go to his house during our lunch break and move something? Turn the TV set backwards so all you can see is the cables? How can he watch The Apprentice that way?

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Suzie Lee

Rename all of his Harry Potter books?

Voldemort and the Sorcerer’s Stone
Voldemort and the Chamber of Secrets
Voldemort and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Voldemort and the Goblet of Fire
Voldemort and the Order of the Phoenix
Voldemort and the Half Blood Prince
Voldemort and the Deathly Hallows

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject Flonkerton

Switch the items in his bedroom dresser with the ones in the kitchen cabinet?

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Tennis shoes

Cut a hole in the crotch of his laser tag uniform?

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Nickel Creek

Switch all of his Monopoly money with Schrute bucks?

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Key

Move his bed to the bathroom?

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Capture the flag

Okay, I’ll meet you at the car in three minutes.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Beesly
Subject: Free Rice

Which one are we going to do?

To: Pamela Beesly
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Facebook

All of the above. Maybe not at the same time… Can we please give Dwight his collar as a Christmas present?


To: Pamela Halpert
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: I’d like to rest my pretty head tonight

I’m running by Publix on my way home tonight. Can I get you anything?

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Halpert
Subject: On a bed of California stars

Are you sure you want to ask me that? But yeah, we need milk, yogurt, parsley and vanilla.

To: Pamela Halpert
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: I’d like to lay my weary bones tonight

Please tell me those aren’t all ingredients for dinner tonight…

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Halpert
Subject: On a bed of California stars

No… Actually, I hadn’t even thought about dinner tonight… What do you want?

To: Pamela Halpert
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: I’d love to feel your hand touching mine

You.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Halpert
Subject: And tell me why I must keep working on

Tell me, am I a dairy, poultry, bread, or vegetable?

To: Pamela Halpert
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Yes, I’d give my life to lay my head tonight

Uhh, you’re a sweet. Yep. Like a brownie.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Halpert
Subject: On a bed of California stars

You are my favorite dork ever.

By the way, I have your wallet in my purse. I swear you forget it at home just so you have an excuse to come up and talk to me sometimes.

To: Pamela Halpert
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: I’d like to dream my troubles all away

I don’t mean to forget it! I just do. Old habits die hard, I guess.

Hey, don’t make any plans for tomorrow night, okay?

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Halpert
Subject: On a bed of California stars

You didn’t forget!!

To: Pamela Halpert
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Jump up from my starbed and make another day

Do I look like the type of guy that would forget something as monumental as our third wedding anniversary? Honestly, woman! The things you insinuate!

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Halpert
Subject: Underneath my California stars

I know you didn’t forget. I was just teasing you.

It’s hard to believe we’ve been married for so long. I feel like just yesterday you were asking me what superhero I would be.

To: Pamela Halpert
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: They hang like grapes on vines that shine

I can’t remember what you were. Some narcissistic person. I don’t know.

I love being married to you.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Halpert
Subject: And warm the lovers glass like friendly wine

I love being married to you... Pooperman.

Do you remember, a few weeks before you proposed, when we had that fight? The one about 21 Questions?

To: Pamela Halpert
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: So I’d give this world

Yep. You wouldn’t ask the 21st. I am still afraid the questions are going to become live rhinoceroses and giraffes and try and eat me.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Halpert
Subject: Just to dream a dream with you

Question 21: Are you happy? Have all your dreams come true?

To: Pamela Halpert
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: On a bed of California stars

I am so extremely happy, I don’t know what to do.

I know this isn’t the right answer, but not all of them have come true yet. I’m still missing Luke and Leia and Audrey.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Halpert
Subject: Princess Fiona

Correction: Luke OR Leia.

To: Pamela Halpert
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Gotta go gotta go gotta go right now!

It’s not nearly as cool if you only give me one! I thought we decided this, Pam! So unfair!!

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Halpert
Subject: Hawks

Come feel my tummy, Jim. One of them is in there.

To: Pamela Halpert
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: It’s Leia!!

It’s Leia. I just know it’s Leia!!

It’s Leia, right? It has to be Leia.

It feels like Leia.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Halpert
Subject: Slapsgiving

I tell you I’m pregnant, you run over to reception like you’re running the sprint in the Olympics, hurdling over desks and Dwights, and the only thing you can think to say is, “It’s Leia. I just know it’s Leia!! It’s Leia, right? It has to be Leia. It feels like Leia”?

There are plenty of other details you could focus on, you know? And I don’t know how you know what Leia feels like in opposition to Luke or Audrey, but yeah, I think it’s Leia too.

To: Pamela Halpert
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Skipping

I’m sorry! I was just so caught up in the Leia-ness of it all!

Tell me everything.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Halpert
Subject: Nala

Well, Jim… When a man and a woman love each other…

To: Pamela Halpert
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Liz Claiborne

Okay, I saw the Circle of Life video in 9th grade Biology… Get on to the details of our daughter.

Our daughter!

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Halpert
Subject: Wicked

I’m so relieved you’re so happy about this. Not that I thought you’d be upset, but gosh, Jim… Save some happiness for the rest of the world.

Well, I was feeling kind of strange this week, so I took an at home test last night, but I didn’t want to tell you in case I was wrong because I didn’t want to hurt you. So I went to the doctor this morning. And we’re 7 weeks along, which puts us due in April. April 3rd, actually. And I can’t eat tuna or skittles, they’re grossing me out right now. And let’s see. I have no idea what day we conceived because let’s be honest, there are a lot to choose from…

I threw up this morning! I’m excited. Is that weird?

I’m so in love with you right now… There’s something about knowing I’m carrying your child…

To: Pamela Halpert
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Pink

April sounds amazing. I can’t wait.

No tuna or skittles. Got it.

Glad to hear you are positive on the throwing up bit.

I’m so in love with you too. I keep imagining what Leia will look like. In my mind, she’s got my dark hair, your beautiful eyes… Your gorgeous smile… Your personality… Basically your everything. I can’t wait to take her to the park and show her the swings and protect her from Michael.

I am a little scared, though. I mean, a whole new life. Another part of you I have to worry about making happy… But a part of you and me. Excited and scared…

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Halpert
Subject: Reefer

You are so adorable… And I hope she looks more like you than anyone else. And I hope she’s just a miniature you. But then we’ll have to fight to keep the boys away.

I’m glad you said you were scared. I’m scared to death… Mixed with excited. Mostly in awe that there’s something inside of me that’s part me part you, and I just know she’s perfect.

You told me once a few years ago when we were dating that you weren’t sure if everything was connected… When I was talking about my life. I’m not sure if you remember that, but I do. I was telling you about how everything just seems to lead into something else so perfectly that I can’t imagine it was all a coincidence. Do you still believe that it’s not connected?

To: Pamela Halpert
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Make me a chicken pot pie

I absolutely believe everything is connected in some way. I look at you, and I’m just in awe of what this life has to offer me. So much for being slacker Jim?

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Halpert
Subject: Make your own damn chicken pot pie

You were never slacker Jim when it came to me.

To: Pamela Halpert
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Wildebeests

That’s sweet.

Your turn to answer the question.

Are you happy? Got everything you want?

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Halpert
Subject: Bat birth control

I’m so inanely, ridiculously, ecstatically happy I don’t even know how to say how happy I am…

I don’t have everything I want (Luke and Audrey…), but I have the promises of having them, so I’m okay.

I really, really want some pull n peel twizzlers.

To: Pamela Halpert
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: French beach

I’ll be right back. Gotta make a run to CVS.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Halpert
Subject: Napkins

You are the best husband ever! You even got me the jumbo pack!!

To: Pamela Halpert
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Sea Foam Green

Well, you’re eating for two now. No reason Leia shouldn’t have twizzlers too.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Halpert
Subject: Smuckers

It might ruin her dinner. Hardy har har.

Tell me, are you glad you let me save Question 21?

To: Pamela Halpert
From: Jim Halpert
Subject:Yaris

I couldn’t imagine a better way to find out I’m gonna be a daddy than you telling me through a game of 21 Questions.

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Halpert
Subject: Sex with Stanley never tasted so good.

And once again, I must say, you’re my favorite dork ever.

To: Pamela Halpert
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Paper plates

How did our game start, again?

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Halpert
Subject: Wilco

I sent you an email telling you I was extremely bored and sent you on a mission to rescue me.

To: Pamela Halpert
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: Luke! I am your father. Come set the table for dinner!

Did I do so adequately?

To: Jim Halpert
From: Pamela Halpert
Subject: Halter tops

Let’s see…. You came in, made me laugh with your superhero identity and obsession with The Bachelor, swept me off my feet, kissed me senseless, made love with me, married me, had ketchup fights with me, and got me pregnant with Leia…. Yeah, I would say you squelched boredom…

…and made me the happiest dork in the whole world.

To: Pamela Halpert
From: Jim Halpert
Subject: I’m so in love with you

I wouldn’t say you’re the happiest dork in the world. Definitely in the top two, but I take that prize.

But I can say, without a doubt in my mind, that you are the prettiest dork in the planet. And that includes aliens and earthlings. So, tough competition.



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