A Loan

Mom wrote me this in a greeting card during my first semester of college. There is a laughing cartoon cat on the front of the card being carried through the clouds hanging onto a pack of heart-shaped balloons. The note on the inside is, “Love you bunches!!” and there was also a small paper on business-card stock with “YOU’RE THE GREATEST” inside the card.

Anne was her therapist for a while and someone she considered a close friend. It kills me that mom spent basically her entire life worried (and close to panicking) about money. She worked hard – hard – her whole life and could never even come close to climbing out of debt; she died penniless.

9/18/91
Hi, Love!

Just a quickie — I’ve got, like, two minutes, but I didn’t want that mailbox empty another day!

Red Sox won last night – I think Toronto lost, Yea!

Can’t wait to see you – it seems like ages. Have you grown?

I actually had the ×××× to write up a proposal and send a letter to Anne asking to borrow $5000.00 against the house. I’m praying but not really hopeful – she just took her whole family (several kids, grand-kids and friends) to Holland for a week of major festivities celebrating her 50th anniversary. She’s probably broke. But, maybe she knows someone…

I applied at Sears, Penneys and Albertsons and picked up apps. at Service Merch., Builders Square and B. Dalton. A couple said they would be hiring for Christmas. Jen went to Ponderosa and Publix and talked to them. No one is hiring!

Speaking of Ponderosa, I saw parts of a tribute to Michael Landon last night. God, I loved him when I was a teenager. Cried all the way through.

Gotta go! I love you. It was great hearing your paper; I would give it an A – hopefully, he hasn’t read a thousand of them on that poem.

Love,
Mom

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It’s 9:00 A.M. – Anne just called me at work — They’re going to do it!!! I’ll have the money in about a week!!!

Thank God!!!!

I love you, Mom

I’ll tell you more when you come home.

Mom