At 04:03 PM 12/21/97 EST, Nmvhook wrote: >Warning: This might be classified as humor or junk mail. Hope some of you >enjoy it. It was sent to me by friends who are missionaries in Japan. Merry >Christmas to all. Nancy V > > > LETTER FROM AN ARKANSAS MOTHER TO HER SON > >Dear Son: > > I am writing this slow because I know you can't read fast. We don't live >where we did when you left. Your Dad read in the paper that most accidents >happen within twenty miles of home, so we moved. I won't be able to send >you the address cause the last family that lived here took the house numbers >with them so they would not have to change their address. > > This place has a washing machine. The first day I put four shirts in it, >pulled down on the handle and haven't seen them since. It only rained twice >this week, three days the first time and four the second time. > > The coat you wanted me to send you, Aunt Sue said it would be a little too >heavy to send in the mail with all them heavy buttons, so we cut them off and >put them in the pockets. > > We got a bill from the funeral home, said if we didn't make the last payment >on Grandma's funeral bill, up she comes. > > About your father, he has a lovely new job. He has over five hundred men >under him. He is cutting grass at the cemetery. > > About your sister, she had a baby this morning. I haven't found out whether >it's a boy or girl, so I don't know if you are an Aunt or an Uncle. > > Three of your friends went off the bridge in a pickup. One was driving, >the other two was in the back. The driver got out, he rolled down the window >and swam to safety. The other two drowned, they could not get the tailgate >down. > > Your Uncle John fell in the whiskey vat. Some men tried to pull him out, >but he fought them off, then he drowned. We cremated him and he burned for >three days. > > Not much more news this time, nothing much happened. > > Write more often. > >Love, Mom > >P.S. I was going to send you some money, but the envelope was already sealed. > i have a home in ark enjoyed it i have trouble on who sends posts just a dirty old man. that is why at the end i like email names and address. at the end. but thear is others to please on offence [log in to unmask] 73/26 lima,ohio I.Y.Q.don&vivian love of my life net also