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Dec. 28, 1957 Letter to Kids
Herman Shooster - Daddy is sitting in his comfortable lounge chair on a damp and mild night in Dec. 1957. The living room is warm and I am alone. Mommy has just gone to bed. I am whiling away the late hours watch- ing an old movie on T.V. and glancing through the pages that proceed this... smiling to myself at the antics of my little sons, and wondering what the future has in store for them. I think a silent prayer. May God protect them and abide them. I think also of our unborn third child. It is due in May... four and a half months yet! I think another prayer. Frankie will be 4 years old in February. Michael will be 3 years old in April. And what are these times like when my chil- dren are still children? Well, two months ago Russia launched the first Earth satellite and with it the age of Man’s dependence on this mother earth begins to come to a close. When I was a child “space” was the fantastic imaginative idea of comic strip writers. Today I am only 33 and imagination has begun to assume its real dimensions of reality.
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