Dear Erica,

Thank you so much for your book. I started to read it and I could not put it down. I finished it yesterday and wished I had still more of it to read. It was wonderful.

Erica, you did a marvelous job in telling your story. I can’t wait to pass it on to my family & friends.

Eileen Drumm

Hi Jerry and Erica,

Today I finished Erica’s book and found it to be such an outstanding work of authorship that I could not put it down, continually reading it to its entirety – and compelling me to write to the both of you.

It is truly a masterpiece artfully constructed so that every reader can relate to some portion of the saga. Having myself been perceived as a member of a WOP immigrant family during the Great Depression, I found myself identifying with a considerable portion of the story.

Based on my understanding of what I read, Erica’s mother was the person for whom I hold the greatest respect. Not only remaining stalwart holding together a family under those most horrific of existences but additionally to be stoic takes courage beyond the ability of but a few humans, male or female.

Erica, yours has been a life of outstanding accomplishments achieved in “The Land of Opportunity,” aided by the most understanding of husbands.

Erica, you are to be most admired for having survived the most horrible event in the history of this planet and also to have conquered the most challenging of task by the sheer power of will. You hold both my respect and admiration.

Your book is most outstanding and I wish I could find other books to be so captivating and interesting, to the degree that I presume to address the author.

Never before have I attempted to offer comment to an author, and I find it most gratifying on this occasion.

Kindest personal regards,
Dr. Edward Lance
Ruidoso, NM