by a sports memorabilia house. here s the catch. the letter was from 18-year-old soon to be basketball legend michael jordan. wtvd s lena machado rereports from north carolina. i see my letter. i m thinking, what in the world? reporter: it was a letter la quita robinson says her high school sweetheart michael jordan wrote to her nearly 30 years ago. a letter she thought she had in her possession. that was between him and me, not anyone else. it wasn t for anyone else to have knowledge of. that s something he wrote to me atat that time out of his heart. reporter: so you can imagine her surprise when she saw the two-page document on tv friday. her romance with a teenaged jordan out in the open in a letter available for everyone to read. first i was in shock. i mean, i was trying to figure out where it came from. reporter: according to lelands.com, a sports auction house, the love note and a picture of robinson and jordan dressed up for prom is now in the hands of someone else
december of 2004. robinson says she never knew the letter was missing. now she fears there could be more items that are unaccounted for. robinson suspects a family member took the letter and sold it to the auction house. for them to take something that belonged to me and to capitalize off of it without my knowledge, without my permission it really upsets me. reporter: that s why she s vowing to take legal action against the person who stole the items. but first she wants to set the record straight with jordan. more than anything, i wouldn t want michael to think that i did it. because i wouldn t want him to think i would betray him in this way. that report was from wtvd s lena machado. and in the letter jordan says he was writing it during advanced chemistry class, which probably explains his success in basketball. who wasn t doing that in chemistry class? it s better than sitting around, what is going on? he mentionhis father taking the school basketball team to