If You Missed It, Originals

  4/08/15- Dear Tom, My mother, Ida Fleming is a loving, sweet person who raised me as a single mom.   she was a very out-going person, until about ten years-ago when she was diagnosed with spinal Stenosis and Neuropathy which causes pressure on the her spinal cord along with weakness, numbness and pain from nerve […]

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  Dear Tom, 4/01/15- I consider my big sister Tomika as my greatest gift! It is for that reason that I am reaching out to you with this Christmas Wish. For the past couple of years, I have seen my sister struggle to provide for her family, which consists of her spouse, two sons, 14 and 9 and […]

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  3/25/15- Dear Tom, I could not decide if I wanted to reach out for help for my mother or my youngest brother. I realized that any help provided for one, will help the other. They live in North Carolina so I am not there to help on a daily basis. For the last 10 […]

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  3/18/15- Dear Tom, At this point in my life, I want to give up.  My husband and i are going through a bankruptcy and getting ready to lose the only home we own and family land.  We had to move from Lake County to Miami Dade because my husband found a better job. But with […]

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  3/11/15- Dear Tom, I will be graduating on May 16, 2015 from an on-line university with a master’s degree in health care administration.   My graduation will be held at the Georgia dome in Atlanta, Georgia and my Christmas wish is for my family to be able to share in this significant achievement in my […]

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  3/04/15- Dear Tom, My husband, Theo and I have been together for forty-one years and in all that time we have never been through the hardship that we are going through now.  I have been a home health aide for twenty years.  But, right now i am out of work because my client died […]

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  2/25/15- Dear Tom, I really need a Christmas wish for my wife, Marion to help her get back into the work force after dealing with breast cancer and chemotherapy.    She was in the Information Technology (IT) field and got caught in the layoffs back in 2002.   After that, she just couldn’t find a job anywhere, […]

If You Missed It, Originals

  2/18/15- Dear Tom, My name is Ann and I am a mother of two, a college student and i work a full-time job.   However, this Christmas wish is not for me, but for my son, Jayden.  At two and a half, Jayden was completely non-verbal and not as developed as other children his age.  It was […]

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  2/11/15- Dear Tom, My youngest daughter, Cierra has been an outstanding student for as long as I can remember.  When she was in elementary school and had trouble grasping math she took it upon herself to sign-up for tutoring.  She now volunteers at her former elementary school tutoring struggling students.  She also is involved in […]

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  2/04/15- Dear Tom, My mother, Jean Bullock, has endured many personal tragedies over the last thirty years.  Yet she has somehow remained resilient.    The story of her life is a touching one.   She had 7 children by the time she was 38 years- old.    Divorced and a single mom, she met my step-dad in […]

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  Dear Tom, 1/28/15- You will never know how difficult these next few words are for me to write, but I need your help.  Since I was a teen mom with little to no support I have tried hard to juggle life and all it’s thrown at me.   Some things worked—some things didn’t, but somehow I bounced back.  Quitting […]

If You Missed It

  1/21/15- Dear Tom, This letter is hard for me to write, but here it goes. I would like to request a Christmas wish for my daughter, Sierra Mathews.   Sierra is an 18 year-old freshman at Bowling Green State University, who found out last November that she has a rare form of ovarian cancer.   She […]