Chick and Nora going to the Rodeo

I loved Nora more than I can even express in writing. She gave up her job in California and moved in my room to take care of my mother who was terminal with breast cancer, so I could stay in school. She was my mother's aunt, and my grandmother was suffering from depression and could not deal with my mother being ill. This is a photo of her with my father that was taken in 1944. It is similar to the one I used last year for week 38 Celebration. She and my father were great friends, and she refused to believe that he was killed in WWII. When I was a child, she and I would talk about him being alive on an island near Japan. Sometimes a child just needs a friend to live in a fantasy world with. She was that friend.

This is a photo of my father and my great aunt Nora Long taken September 1944. They were great friends, and they were enjoying “Wichita, Kansas Rodeo Days”.

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