THE PUBLIC MIND: WOMAN INVOLVED IN ACCIDENT THANKS THOSE WHO BELIEVE IN HER

To the Editor:

This letter concerns an accident I was involved in on May 9, 1992. There have been many things written about me in the newspapers that were not true. For over a year, I have told the reporters the same thing over and over ... the truth. There was no alcohol served at my class reunion, and I did not drink any alcohol at the reunion, but they printed their lies anyway. I guess it made a more interesting story that way.

My friends and everybody who knows me knows I am not a dishonest person and I am not a drinking person. The two drinks I had before going to the reunion were not a usual thing with me. It was an accident for which I blame myself, but it was not caused by alcohol.

I was born and raised around Marble Hill and the majority of the people there are good, kind people. To those I just want to say, "Thank you for believing in me." To the others, "I can't be hurt any more than I'm hurting already." There is one other all-important person who knows what's in the heart of all of us, and that's what keeps me going.

Edith Page Spalding

Cape Girardeau