Lakewood, California, circa 1971: The most beautiful little girl in the world

I am not the only one with old family photos. Jamie has them, too, except she’s young enough that most of hers are in color. When strangers stop us on the street to tell Jamie how beautiful she is, I always say, ”And she’s even more beautiful on the inside.” They frequently nod and say, ”Oh, you can tell that just by looking at her.” When she was a little girl and her “Mother of the Year” was still sound asleep, the pajama-clad three year old would often leave the house and waddle down the street and around the corner to a neighbor’s house. The neighbor was Mrs Johnson. “I think she understood what my mom was all about,” Jamie reminisced, “and decided to fill … Continue reading Lakewood, California, circa 1971: The most beautiful little girl in the world