Birthday Card from Charlotte

One summer day in 1991, Mom was driving to Aunt Yola's house and I came along. It was hot, with a temperature in the high 90's. Driving along a country road, we passed an elderly woman standing in her front yard. (I later learned she was eighty-seven at the time.) She was in some kind of distress. Mom stopped the car and spoke with her. She had locked herself out of her house in that heat and was extremely upset. Mom calmed her down and asked her whether it would be all right if I tried to climb in through one of the windows. The woman said yes. It wasn't too difficult, and after few minutes the front door was open. . . . A few years later, Mom sent me a birthday card along with two enclosures.  —Walt

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Birthday card from Mom

Note from Irene Selah.
“12-20-91. I think of you Wonderful Kind Citizens often and I do not get out to shop but I just had to send you this. I want you to know we need more Good Samaritans. You are real. — Irene and dear doggie Dugan.  — Irene Selah.”

Coin from Irene Selah.
“I remember that day when I was in need on a hot summer day.”