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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Lucknow Sentinel, 1980-12-24, Page 1A FOSTER PARENT RENEWERS HER FOTO CHILD AT CHRISTMAS,... By Iolltoa Bland the street. She is the Same age as I, but she You said you were a Brownie, Retno. My Same.age as'nly son, you are inches shorter, looks older, I clean the house, Retno, among daughter was one. She got tired of it all that and pounds lighter. • other 'things.- You can't understand 'why' it dancing around the toadstool. You have rig Thank you for your photograph, Retno, , would, take me long. I polish floors; you have • choice Someone, probably on another cont- You look so seriol4S and neat. Cati - you one room and beaten earth, I polish win.. itient, had the prettY thought: "Brownies believe my children dress by choice in frayed dowS; 3,9n have none. ' round the world. unite. All the world's a jeans and sloppy shoes? You have to be tich, — ---4. Retnor4o-eni eoking-shabby. house, where I polish floors and windows.So now you cannot go to school unless you I have tried and failed once again, Retno :land furniture, I feel cross and tired because - . are a Brownie and have a uniform. - to reach across to you from our safety and . • there is so much ,to clean, I feel hard done by . that I have this big, comfortable house that 1 . Families often have to sell their furnitnre cPPlence. So much of your life 'I can barely. have to clean, • • ' to buy the uniforms to keep their -children in understand. So much of ours would be gross That's not your mother's problem. She school. School is your only hope, Retno. If to tell you about. doesn't have the frustration of waiting for you can stay there, you can become a I will send you the usual trite phrases, the the washing'machine service man. She is on teacher, as you would,like to, The money we stilted words a hand across the world, I -'-- her kn ees, in--the-rivet. --S he- does- -not-vvorry - - -send-you eaCh month pays:for.your fees. Ili cl--- -hope you uncled•stand—_,....... . — ....._._ — wards, • . • be spoiled - rice does not go bad. She doesn't health is also cared for by the State. You eat only two bowls of rice:a day. How have to take a plunger to the loo: She has the You pay for every illness, every, drug. • can you' pictUre a turkey dripping with river; SMall wonder that though you are the juices? The house is alight with tinsel. Sillier; gold and coloured strands strung from room to Each year, sitting by the fire, watching the , Christmas tree, I try to write to our Foster Child inlindonesia. I try to reach across to her; each year I fail„. "Merry ChristmaS, Retno." How tan I explain Christmas to you, Retno? You- are nine years old, and own nothing in the world. How pan you understand that we do net fast as you do? --WestoreuploOd-forone-enorinous feast that- -sometimes makes us fat and cross after- that, the freezer might break down and meat you know we get our education free? Our 'Merry Christmas, Retno - and my love.' Sometimes-when-I-have-eared-for-CIns---this' -Taken frorn the Foster Parents Plan Canada News,, Fall 1980 edition. room, and burnished hanging balls. Every- ' where 'there is warmth and festivity. You have only one room, Even your, three Chairs and a table are borrowed from your uncle. My children are-fighting because they must share a room to Make space for grand.. parents. Seven of you sleep in one bed and sit on it by day. You ask me what I do. Not as much as your mother, I'm afraid. She Sells fried snacks in WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, .1980 SECOND SECTION Dear Santa, Thank you for last year's present. Please can I have an auger' Your friend, Gary Stein. Dear Santa, Thank you for last year's presents. Please let me have an electric train set. Your friend, David. 'Dear Santa, Thank you for last year's presents. Please can .I have one big doll? I like you Sar How are you doing Santa? Row is Mrs. Santa? Your friend, Mary Miller. Dear Santa, Thank you for last year's 'presents. I would like a digital watch with a light. Is your sleigh hooked up? How are you doing up at the North Pole? Your friend, Robert Cooper, Dear Santa, Thank you for last year's presents. I would like this please. I would like Blue- berry Short cake or if you can't get that you can get this - a Kiss Doll. See' you later Santa. Your friend, Judy Lane. Dear Santa, Thank you for last year's presents. I will have a train set if you have one or any- thing. I like you Santa. Your friend, Chris Stanley. Dear Santa, Thank you for last year's presents. I like your elves and I like Mrs. Santa. But I surely like good old you! Please give me dollypop for Christmas. 0.K? If you don't have that, then please give me pianosoris. Dear Santa, Thank you \for last year's presents. Please can I have a doll or a Teddy Bear? Santa, you're my friend too. Your friend, Betty Anne Murray. Dear Santa, I want a car and an AFX track. How is Mrs. Claus and reindeer? How is Rudolph? Good-bye for now. Love from, Kevin Springer, Lucknow Central.. Dear Santa, I would like the kissing Barbie and some new skates and skiis. I also admire the game operation. School has been fun so far. I will leave. lots of things for you. By the way, how is your wife? Well I better go now. Bye! Love from, Alison Wardrop, Lucknow Central. Dear Santa, . Thank you for last year's presents. I would like some Star Wars men please. How are your elves? Your friend, Lyndon Johnston. Dear Santa, • How is Mrs. Claus and the elves? I will leave you' some cookies and milk. I would like a new train, and a helicopter, please. How are the reindeer and Rudolph? 1 would like cow- boy pants that go over your legs. Bye for now. Oh there is one more thing. School is fun and so is' Mrs, Bell too. Bye for now. Love from, Jamie Johnston, Lucknow Central.