Here’s a letter I wrote to The Seattle Times back in 2016:
My eighty-nine year-old mom just called me in a panic. She wanted to know if we’re “all going crazy.” I asked her what was up. She said she’d just heard that “they” were going to get rid of Medicare. I asked her where she heard this, and she said on the news. I told her to turn the news off right now. She said she would, and we bid each other good night.
Eighty-nine year-old mothers are allowed to turn the news off and go to bed. I wish I was.
And ARE we all going crazy?! What has happened to the nation I love?
Karen Molenaar Terrell
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And here’s how the letter appear when it got published in The Seattle Times.
News Creating Medicare Panic?
My eighty-nine year-old mom just called me in a panic. She wanted to know if we’re “all going crazy.” I asked her what was up. She said she’d just heard that “they” were going to get rid of Medicare. I asked her where she heard this, and she said on the news. I told her to turn the news off right now. She said she would, and we bid each other good night. Are we all going crazy?! What has happened to the nation I love?
Karen Molenaar Terrell
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You see what happened there? Yeah. That’s been bothering me for three years. I figured it was time to say something.
Moving on…
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