You should have a friend like my friend, Silver Wendy. Look what she did for her friend Doña.
To answer the two obvious questions…
1) Why is Wendy called Silver Wendy?
A: Because when Beans was small she distinguished between my two friends named Wendy by referring to them by their hair color. Silver Wendy has blonde hair, which I guess to a 3 year old, looked Silver. And brunette Wendy became Black Wendy. Which, as you can imagine, was a great conversation starter in public places.
“Mommy, where’s Black Wendy?”
<75 politically-correct heads whip around looking for the mom of the Racist Kid…>
2) Why should I care about Doña?
Because as I said before think of a time a stranger graced you with a random act of kindness and pay it forward. This blog doesn’t get a lot of traffic – mainly because no one knows about it – so for those of you who do visit here, please consider blogging about Doña on your own site, or linking back here, or just emailing your friends about it. I guarantee it’s more important that the stupid joke you forwarded last night.
i’ll link.
and i don’t know where she is getting treatment, but the husband of my friend syrentha, who died of breast cancer a few years ago, set up a fund to help pay for treatment at the lombardi center at georgetown. http://www.syrentha.org. in case it helps at all.
what a tough chick. and what a wonderful friend.
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