I know, have had them since my aunt died, just not sure how to deal with them. Thanks for your input.

Sounds like a great book.

My favorite aunt died February 2008. She had some love letters from an old beau that apparently broke her heart. She didn't have any children of her own, but married her 2nd husband in 1974 so then had 2 stepsons and lots of grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

After she died, one of the daughter-in-law's sent the love letters (along with other family pictures) to my dad. My dad died in November, 2008.

I am not sure what to do with the letters. I have not read them. On one hand they are kind of a family legacy, but on the other hand would feel like I am invading her privacy if I were to read them. Part of me thinks I should destroy them and allow them to die a quiet death, yet I am not sure.

Would appreciate some suggestions on how to handle these letters. Thanks.

Doesn't surprise me a bit. People need to stop using money as a way to get revenge on their ex's and remember their kids are involved and pay the support as it helps make their child's/children's life easier. My ex was logging in Alaska, would come down from Alaska with $19,000 cash, we never saw one red cent of it, he would drink it up and then head back and start the cycle over again. They need to treat all the "deadbeats" the same, but back in the 80s, they didn't do much. Guess they are more aggressive now. Thanks for the info Beachbum.

Wow, that is the exception to the rule.

I saw them talking about them on TV, think it was Dr. Phil, some women do fall for this scam. They send them checks for $4,000 or $5,000 or so, they cash the checks through their bank accounts and the banks just cash them, no questions asked. The women keep $1,000 or so, send the rest back. Then the banks find out the checks are no good and the women are held responsible for the rest of the money the bank cashed for them on the bad checks. There is no legal recourse for them to get out of paying it back, and they can't go after the guys who send them the money, they are totally stuck and it pretty much destroys them. One woman said she checked it out, she thought. Called the number on the check, of course, it was the number on the check, part of the scam, so she thought she was safe. She got stuck having to pay back $8,000 or so, and was a single mother, thought she could make a few dollars this way.

So there are people out there that fall for it. She had no way out of it at all, and only a minimum wage job.

Get in line Gyps - I am still cashing paychecks for the guys in Dubai and Ghana. Want to help????

I did the ones on here, but the other site ones I just ignore, no way to do anything with them there.

Thanks, Lori.

I am getting at least 2 e-mails a day on another site. They are all pretty much the same, they are "widowed", have a child, God-fearing, want a good woman to love, blah, blah, blah. Then they end the e-mail with contact me at "spankme***@*****.com" or some such clever name. (I have actually seen a woman with that name on a guy's profile.)

They have been from Nigeria, Dubai, Ghana. I had to get mad at one of them before he stopped asking me for money -- he asked 5 times!!!!

I especially like the ones who want me to arrange to cash their paychecks for them and then send them back to them, ummm, NO!!! One even asked me to open an offshore account for him, NOT!!!!

They are creative buggers.

You too??? I swear, all the deadbeat dads out there. I really do give kudos to the dads who pay their support and follow through with their visitations and are actual dads to their kids, even after the divorce. My daughter paid the price for her dad being "absentee" in more ways than one. I wish there were more "good" dads out there.

Osteoporosis will cause a person to lose height, is when your bones get brittle from calcium loss, etc. And they can form a hump on their backs (kyphosis). My mom lost several inches too.

I got nothing for child support from my ex, jerk died owing us better than $28,000. I quit counting, what was the use???

Is the beginning of my last 4 days of work before my vacation starts and I pick Pammy up at the airport on Friday night.

Wow, have a whole 10 days of no work, first vacation in over a year, whoo hoo !!!!!

The doctors used to use Librium when detox'ing a patient from alcohol, but not sure if that is their drug of choice now.

Lots of doctors now are very cautious in their prescribing of these drugs and will only use them very short term. The only time I have seen Valium prescribed was for severe muscle spasm (i.e., sciatica or back spasms, etc.), again short term. The doctors appear to be aware of the addictive qualities of the drugs and I have even heard that one of them, don't remember which one, but think it was Xanax, had the same effect on the body as drinking alcohol, so lots prefer not to prescribe it.

Per my neurologist, they have found clonazepam at nighttime to help as a preventative for migraines. It is one of the milder forms of this medication.

The doctors I type for actually refer patients to pain management doctors if they insist they need benzos or long term hard core pain meds, as they are not willing and/or comfortable prescribing these for the patients.

We have towns along Hood Canal named:

"Humptulips" and "Dosewallips"

Always thought they were interesting.

I'll protect ya girl, have a shoe in one hand and a can of hair spray in the other, you are safe!!!

Dang, nice boots!! There are women that would beat him up for those boots.

I know they eat the bad bugs and flies and such, I don't mind them if I know where they are, just don't like the suckers sneaking up on me, like while I am in bed, etc. Yup, he had his chance. RIP Spidey. I do think they are going to start trying to come in, it is cooling off already, heck, still August for a few more days.

Sorry, I'll go to my corner now.

Cleaning a septic or sewer line.

If you were at the ocean, you could be razor clam digging.