SCHOOL OF HARD KNOCKS

 

   
LETTY:
 
My first secretarial job was in a ranch house/office next to a lumberyard in West Point, PA. In between the office and the lumberyard was a shack inhabited by an old woman. I don't think she had electricity, and I suspected she snitched wood from the lumberyard to heat her home. I know she took fruit from a tree in front of the office because when I moved my car at night fruit would be on the ground, and in the morning it would be gone. As much as I wished I could help her, I could never find a way; but I did remember her for 30 years. "Letty" sounded right (I had a jr. high friend of that name), and I have some relatives named "MacNair" (also chosen for sound).
  
  
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