Icky Etardo
Joo got some 'splainin' to do
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I'm no expert but I do have a lot of experience doing handwriting comparisons from when I was a title examiner. The two words "THESE EYES" are certainly different in style than everything else on the page. The phone number written below it, however, is similar and nearly indistinguishable from all of the other numbers on the page. "THESE EYES" is printed in stylized, all-caps letters. Unfortunately we don't have any other capital E's printed on this page for comparison.Do we have any handwriting experts here at WS? The "these eyes" notation looks different from the rest of the handwriting on the page.
It also looks like some of the words on the page were things that she went back to and retraced. "402 months" "records" "CNA" "Laciner" "Today". Are those things that she was obsessing about?
http://seattletimes.com/ABPub/2013/06/20/2021230731.jpg
Edited: I removed the image because it was blowing out the page margins here on the forum. If anybody knows how to shrink and post it, please do.
Considering the formatting (or lack thereof), content, and context of the page, it's likely that "THESE EYES" was doodled while the writer spoke on the phone. While it's possible that some of the items that have been traced over more than once were things that she was obsessing about, it's also possible that she retraced them absentmindedly while on a boring phone call. Note pages like this are unique due to their complete informality. Most people who make notes like these don't expect anyone else to ever read them, so they're far more sloppy and less likely to follow rules of grammar, spelling, and neatness than they would on even the simplest informal document like a grocery list.
Was "THESE EYES" written by a different person? There really isn't enough information on the page to know. Considering that the numbers directly beneath it match the writing of all the other numbers on the page, my best guess would be that they were all written by the same person. An expert handwriting analyst might be able to make more of it but I suspect that they'd be hampered by a lot of the same issues that I'm struggling with here. My verdict: not enough information, inconclusive as to whether they were written by the same person or not.