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When we decided to play foster parents to a New York boy (through the New York Hep*aid Tribune Fresh Air Fund, we were living in a little white farm house in the Blue Ridge Mountains bf Fauquier county, Va.
“Your chances of receiving a completely model child are about one in 100”, said the Herald Tribune pamphlet which we had studied preceding your arrival. On the other hand, the chances against receiving a really difficult child are about 1,000 to 1. We would like to send every host a model child—a pretty, beguiling girl with long curls—a cleancut manly lad with careful manners—or a Chinese child for whom the demand always outruns the supply.
a typical, city-bred youngster, who is struggling to grow up with the economic odds .stacked against him, but who will be found to respond beautifully to kindness and understanding.” .
Other parts of the letter describe the fi^n that Bobby-had going fishing and horse-back riding.
During yotir hunt for worms we learned some things about your family. You told us your father was a dock worker and your mother was employed at “a place where they make rouge, powder, -Snd lad*?sv’ JWUmM« you had &, sister, Patty, a year older than you, and a baby brother, Dennis. You lived in a flat on Eleventh avenue. There were no trees or grass neartby, but
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