"You're crazy, I'm not mailing you letters when you live near enough for me to walk and tell you anything that I want to say. Besides, I don't have the letters you wrote, they-- they did give me a bundle of letters when I was in the hospital, but I didn't read 'em."

He had been too messed up at the time, and he had pushed them away with the intention of not needing to reply because he'd be able to go home and be okay and none of it would matter. And by the time he got home, he'd mislaid the bundle of unread letters somewhere along the route.

"Why don't you give me the highlights?"

He has a feeling that at least a few of them would have been Steve yelling at him in letter form for not writing back.