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bomberqueen17 replied to your post “I love how my mom just sends me these random-ass news articles with…”
sometimes my mom used to send me newspaper clippings and i had to guess which side was the relevant one because she doesn’t believe in explanatory notes of any kind
lol that’s fucking adorable
She’ll just roughly tear out like, a quarter of a page, and so I have to puzzle out whether it was the ad on the back, or the bit of column there, or the column on the other side with the photo partly torn off it, or… Like, my dad will circle the relevant thing, and append a note (on his personal stationery that someone custom-printed him in 1967 as a joke, it says “from the tent of Cpl. [firstname][lastname]” and I honestly don’t think he was actually ever a corporal but who knows)
sometimes she sent gifts that way too. once at the table in the dining hall when i was a freshman in college i opened an unlabeled envelope and just– a pair of satin underpants with pink hearts on them fell out. just. right there. in front of everyone. and i was like. … my mother probably got these at a four-for-whatever-dollars sale at JC Penney and sent one apiece to me and my three sisters, but I have had to infer that because there’s no note or anything. I just got. An envelope of panties. Why not, mom.
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invisiblespork:
bomberqueen17 replied to your post “I love how my mom just sends me these random-ass news articles with…”
sometimes my mom used to send me newspaper clippings and i had to guess which side was the relevant one because she doesn’t believe in explanatory notes of any kind
lol that’s fucking adorable
She’ll just roughly tear out like, a quarter of a page, and so I have to puzzle out whether it was the ad on the back, or the bit of column there, or the column on the other side with the photo partly torn off it, or… Like, my dad will circle the relevant thing, and append a note (on his personal stationery that someone custom-printed him in 1967 as a joke, it says “from the tent of Cpl. [firstname][lastname]” and I honestly don’t think he was actually ever a corporal but who knows)
sometimes she sent gifts that way too. once at the table in the dining hall when i was a freshman in college i opened an unlabeled envelope and just– a pair of satin underpants with pink hearts on them fell out. just. right there. in front of everyone. and i was like. … my mother probably got these at a four-for-whatever-dollars sale at JC Penney and sent one apiece to me and my three sisters, but I have had to infer that because there’s no note or anything. I just got. An envelope of panties. Why not, mom.
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