Pirates.. no.. stereotypical pirates

dearest pirate sir,
when i first learned a couple of weeks ago that we would be learning piracy a million and one things came into my mind - are we stealing dvds, or finding the culprites? are we going to sail the seas and steal gold with black flags flying above are ships... BINGO this is the one that we are hitting. so i am writing to you for a number of reasons but basically because of this, before i read bootylicious, before i started being interested in what Peter T Leeson had to say, before i read an aritcle on the inner child of hook it was me - you - and a whole lot of mixed up visions. i thought you were mean, and barbarik and stole from helpess ports off the ocean and most importantly i thought you didnt exist still - i thought hook was a fictional character like the toothfairy and i thought that my profs couldnt be serious.. once again mr pirate i am sorry for i was proven wrong.
Peter T Leeson and Bootylicious showed me that you did exist, and still do and that you are not barrbarik horrible people but have hearts when you want to, actually peter t leeson said that most of you, almost all, were as civialized as me and the person beside me... oh wait thats you.
but, i read this interesting article, because something about your kind caught my eye. when i was a child i used to read books, watch movies and hear stories of HOOK and it was not until i got the chance to look deeper into who you are that i realized i wanted to know more about pirates; do they look like hook, is hook based on real people, what existed before hook. then i read this article by patricia pace that is not seated nicely in my binder, that was no help except solidifying that image of hook but it also made me think of you as a coward, womanly almost and that maybe Peter T Leeson was right...
i guess i will find out...
something, mr pirate man, that you should know is that you got it lucky never having to study book learning - it gets stressful but just by smiling its washed away.