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December 28th, 1954
Dearest Edna and Jess:-
Thank you so much for my gifts and every thing else. Jess, I do so appreciate the beautiful cards you send me and the enclosure. You are so wonderful to me. I have saved the cards year by year. Dorothy put them out as decoration and everyone admired them. I rec'd about 70 Christmas cards. Ruth and I have our cards on a cord across the two big windows.
E & Ruth gave me a beautiful new wool robe and check. Dorothy game me game and check, Miriam check, Bobbie & Adrian stamps as usual. Sharon, box note paper, Norma, notepaper, Virginia and Harold, stationery and my book, Paul & Helen, check and book, L&M check, Betty & H check, Mildred & Mic, money, Alice and Ross, beautiful stationery. With four boxes of stationery for Christmas and three for my birthday, I have surplus, so gave two boxes to Lynn and Ann. They gave me a big photo of Ann. Edna, I got rug for Lynn and shirts for David with the money you sent. Ruth gave Lynn a pretty spread for his bed so her room looks really nice. Virginia brought her a box you sent them. The other appreciated the nuts. Thank your folks and Mary's for the beautiful purse. It goes so nicely with my shoes.
We had 18 for Christmas dinner, served buffet style. Everything was so good. Dorothy got a 20 lb. turkey at the commisary. Ann and Lynn were here, Norma and Al, besides the family. David went to a friend's and Paul slept. Virginia and Jim went to his folks' in La Jolla. Jim is an only child so if they had not gone to them, they would have been alone. Carlton came for Rickey and took him to his folks'. Carlton is going to be married in May. Divorce becomes final in April. Have not heard that Sharon has any plans to marry. She is busy with her work at Ryan's. She has nice apartment for $35.00, furnished.
Dorothy has been looking at houses. She wants to buy and get settled before Al comes home Sunday. We drove over to a new development. Eight houses, furnished and open for inspection. They ran a big ad in Sunday paper. I never saw so many people. They kept coming and going. Everett said they were very poor construction and cheap material. The paper, Monday, said there were 45,000 people there during the day and I believe it.
Monday it was cold with a strong wind. Yesterday was not quite so cold and today is nice.
Letter from Mildred C says that Dan is in the hospital, very sick, with pneumonia. She is very much worried. Dan has been sick for a long time, high blood pressure. She is not ill either. Norma is feeling much better.
This letter is just for you. I am writing the others.
Lots of love to you both and wishing you every thing good for 1955.
Mama
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