HI BRAD;  SINCE I WILL BE LEAVING EARLY EARLY SUNDAY AM I JUST WANTED TO SHARE WITH  YOU THE PHONE CALL I HAD WITH MY SON IN TENNESSEE AFTER I LEFT YOUR OFFICE.  FIRST OF ALL, MY 27 YO SON,JOSHUA, IS A VERY EMOTIONALLY VOID YOUNG MAN-HE TAKES AFTER HIS FATHER,UNFORTUNATELY.  WHEN I TOLD HIM WHAT I WON, HE COULD NOT BELIEVE IT AND I HAVE NOT HEARD SUCH HAPPINESS EMOTE FROM THIS "KID" SINCE HE WAS A LITTLE BOY.  SINCE RAISING MY KIDS ALONE FOR THE PAST 20 YRS MY KIDS HAVE NOT HAD IT EASY.  THEY WORE CLOTHES FROM WALMART,ETC AND WE HAD VERY VERY LITTLE.  HE IS INTO COMPUTERS BIG TIME AND WHEN I HAD TO DECIDE WHICH CHILD WOULD GET IT, I KNEW IT WOULD BE MY SON, YOU KNOW, BOYS AND THEIR TOYS, AND MEN AND THEIR TOYS. SO, I HAD TO GIVE IT TO MY DAUGHTER TO GIVE IT TO HER BROTHER AND MY DAUGHTER, REBECCA,24, SAID IT WAS NOT FAIR THAT JOSH GETS IT OVER HER.

I TOLD HER THAT HE'S GETTING IT AS HE WILL COME VISIT ME WHEN I AM IN THE "HOME" AND SHE WON'T.  THIS SON OF MINE WAS ALWAYS MY HERO, AND PROTECTED HIS MOTHER AND IF I EVER NEEDED HIM HE'D BE DOWN HERE IMMEDIATELY, WHERE MY DAUGHTER IS TOO MUCH INTO HERSELF AND HASN'T LEFT THAT "ME" STAGE.

JOSHUA TOLD ME HIS WIFE OF 6 MOS WANTS ONE, AND I TOLD HIM THIS IS FOR HIM, AND TO PLEASE KEEP IT FOR HIMSELF, AS HE IS THE TYPE TO GIVE EVERYTHING AWAY TO OTHERS BUT HE SAID, NO WAY, HE IS KEEPING IT FOR HIMSELF.  AND KEPT REPEATING, MOM DO YOU KNOW HOW EXPENSIVE THEY ARE? 

SO, WHEN I GOT YOUR PHONE CALL THIS AM, I THOUGHT,OK, ANOTHER SCAM, BUT I HAD TO GET TO FIRESTONE ANYWAY, SO WHAT THE HELL.  THEN I WALK IN AND SEE THREE BIG MEN, AND I AM THINKING, OH,NO, HERE IT COMES.....THE BIG SELL OR SCAM.

WE ARE ALL STILL IN SHOCK AS I HAVE NEVER WON ANYTHING IN MY ENTIRE LIFE.  YOU MADE A MOTHER AND HER SON VERY VERY HAPPY.  MY SON ALWAYS GOT SHORT-CHANGED IN HIS SHORT LIFE AND WHEN I HEARD THE HAPPINESS IN HIS VOICE, IT MADE MY DAY AND HIS.

I ALREADY TOLD MY DAUGHTER THAT SHE MUST TAKE HER VEHICLE TO THE SANDY PLAINS RD EMISSIONS PLACE IN JUNE, IF YOU ARE STILL RUNNING THIS DRAWING.

I CANNOT BELIEVE IT.

THANK YOU EVER SO MUCH!

SINCERELY,
JOYCE

Atlanta