Another story on my late sister Frances:
Back in the 1950s during the Christmas Season the Marietta
Daily Journal had s “LETTERS TO SANTA” section, which would publish letters
that local kids wrote to Santa.
Frances was a teenager then.
She jokingly said she was going to write a letter to Santa saying:
Dear Santa,
I don’t want much for myself, but I would like for my
parents to have a son-in-law.
Yours Truly,
Frances Hunter.
One of her friends sent in a letter to Santa c/o of The
Marietta Journal saying exactly that.
It made nation—wide news.
Frances begin getting proposals from men all over the United
States in care of the MDJ.. She was
embarrassed and horrified.
The MDJ sent out a reporter and photographer to interview
our family. Me about ten or eleven was
jumping up and down telling the reporter that “Frances is more famous than
Margaret Truman!” (Harry’s Daughter). I
was quoted.
Whoever sent the letter never admitted it.. No, it wasn’t me.
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