Hi Lynn Marie - Two things in your post caught my eye. The first was that you enjoyed “Lady and the Tramp”. This became a favourite of mine also because I used to read it often and often and often to my insistent little daughter. I would leave her room as soon as she fell asleep with images imprinted in my brain, for days, of the shy little smiling terrier and his sweet and demure little canine sweetheart.

The other point was your love of comic books. I never really was a comic book fan, but when Batman was created, I did become very interested in the character. In fact, I spent the last few cents I had, to buy the very first issue of that comic book. That very same day, because I was interested in Batman, my mother coming home from shopping, saw the comic book and bought it for me knowing how interested I was in the character. They were very nice little issues, very spectacularly illustrated featuring sharp black and silver predominance in the graphics. I liked them, and because they were so special I decided that these two copies would be “keepers”: which I did for many years. However as time passed and the infatuation for Batman decreased in importance as I grew up, the books more or less just disappeared. It really didn’t matter at all to me because I was no longer interested, and in fact, I had forgotten all about them.

About a month ago I saw a program on TV. They featured old comic books, that because of their rarity, have now become valuable collector items. I almost had convulsions when I saw an exact copy of my “first-day” Batman books…current market value…40 to 50 thousand dollars each. (and I had once owned two of them !!!) I wonder what ever could have happened to them? Because you say you loved comics too, I would love to think now that you might have been the one who magically found my copies. You would agree, I’m sure. Ah well, c’est la vie. LR.

Belinda Joy I don’t know much about cooking, in fact when she was a little girl I heard my daughter tell my aunt, “Daddy is not a good cooker”. However I always admired “good cookers” and I especially enjoyed reading, or seeing on TV, Julia Childs. I discovered one of Julia’s secrets: if she says the word “butter”, then make sure you use lots of it. She really meant lots and no matter what was being cooked, “lots” of butter made all the difference. So even though I don’t hardly do any cooking, I always make sure the freezer is loaded with butter and if anybody is cooking for me, I make sure they use plenty of it. LR.

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