Us 70 years ago...

Hello girls!

I just had to share this story with you...

Tonight my mom and I went down to my neighbor Sandy's house because she was helping us with a project. She and her husband have her mother living with them in a little wing off of their house. Sandy was showing us around her house because I had never been and said, "Oh Amy you have to come see something at my mother, Annie's, house." We walk over and meet her mother and her mother's sister who were the most adorable 90+ year old women and who were also Ohio State grads! Annie gives me a big hug just because I went to Ohio State and shows me two black and white framed photos on the wall. One is of the very first Script Ohio in 1936 that her own father had actually taken himself! How cool is that?! Then she shows me the rest of her Ohio State memorabilia and talks about how she worked at Long's bookstore on 15th and High for 15 cents an hour! I almost didn't want to tell her that Long's is no longer. She and her sister also lived about a block away from us on 14th between Summit and 4th!! I couldn't believe it. Then they tell me they had to move closer to the train tracks because they couldn't afford the other place any more... My favorite part is that I was telling her how I had graduated and have been having trouble finding a job and her reply is (with absolutely no sarcasm), "Well when I graduated we were having a bit of a recession and I had a devil of a time finding a job! I had to babysit for a year until I found something". It dawns on me that the "bit of a recession" she was talking about was the Great Depression! How hilarious. She totally has a better excuse.

Anyway, the two of them were talking about how much fun they had there and how they got into a bit of trouble but had the time of their lives. It made me miss you all and Ohio State, so I just had to share.

Hope all is well. I'm so excited to see you guys! Lots of love to you all.

Amy