Until July 2010, when her eyesight deteriorated, my mother wrote 1000s of chatty letters during her lifetime - to her parents, in-laws, sisters, children, friends. Tho she started to write to me on a regular basis in Sept '68 when I began my freshman year at SUNY-Buffalo, it wasn't until 10 years later that I decided to hold onto them. (Very inconsistently at first, to which the big gaps between dates attest.) These are the letters transcribed, annotated, and otherwise highlighted here.
Monday, November 14, 2011
Friday, October 23, 1998
Dear Andy,
Have fun on Halloween.
Your dad writes that you are very busy with school work, football & music. We like your football picture a lot. We are glad that you are doing so well.
Dale has been working on the Blazer, his winter car. It is being painted now. Even Dale has to take tests. He got a 94 on one of them. He took another one yesterday. They have to know that Dale knows what he is doing when he works on cars. They are all computerized now.
We are proud of you & we love you.
Dear Eddie,
Your dad sent us your latest school picture. We like it a lot. I think it looks like you are flirting.
We also like the school calendar and your drawing on the month of September. We have a budding artist in our family. That is wonderful.
We hear that you are doing very well in soccer. Warren High has a soccer team and it wins most of their games. The football team isn't very good. Memorial Field where they play football and soccer is being upgraded so it will really e a good field when it is completed. T hey are spending a lot of moneyh on it. Bet your dad has read about it in the Warren paper.
Have a fun Halloween.
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