I Dreamed about Mama Last Night

I watched my mom — a woman with three Master’s degrees, in library science, comparative literature, and management and public policy; a woman who was fluent in French and German and did her Stanford undergraduate senior thesis on Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger — lose her mind over the course of two years. She was 58…. [S]he had noticed her spelling getting worse because MS Word’s spell-checker was catching more errors in her writing. —Mike EdwardsI Dreamed about Mama Last Night (Vitia)

While MS-Word is here presented the bearer of bad tidings, read the whole blog entry to learn how Amazon.com helps give the story some closure. Very touching.

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Dennis G. Jerz

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