Ketchup on SandwichesBob Terwilliger Well, I might make an exception for meatloaf sandwiches. I never even thought of them because it's not something I eat. I have...
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You need to realize, and maybe you'd like to email me to discuss this - they've been married for 55 years. Mom CAN write checks and is an equal holder in the accounts but in her mind she *can't* without his permission, if that makes any sense at all.
She definitely held down the fort - in fact my father wasn't even in the U.S. when I was born and I didn't "meet" him until I was a year old. BUT, she also still asked him for permission to do stuff. I slept on a roll-away cot until I was 7 years old. She got "permission" to buy me a real bed when he was in VietNam... and I know this to be a fact because I have it on tape. They used to exchange reel-to-reel tapes rather than letters; it was Dad's idea of high tech :) I still have the tape where he talked about her going ahead and get "Jillie" a bed. Boy did she! It was a doozie - a canopy bed with a custom made frilly multi-layered fru-fru bedspread. Then she washed the bedspread and it shrunk to the size of a doll-bed - OOPS! Seems she didn't have permission to take it to the dry cleaners. I guess she's just used to doing what he tells her and not much more than that.
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