1994
Matt and Mandy
November 1994

“Matt and Mandy,” Friend, Nov. 1994, 10

Matt and Mandy

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Matt and Mandy

Illustrated by Shauna Mooney Kawasaki

  1. It was very nice of you to invite me over for Thanksgiving dinner.

    It’s our pleasure. You’re a great neighbor and one of our favorite people.

  2. You folks have been wonderful to me since my Bill died. I don’t know what I’d have done without you.

    Well, our lives would be a lot poorer without you too.

    And you’re my “next-door grandma.”

  3. “How come you’re crying, Next-door Grandma?”

    I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to. It’s just that it’s my first Thanksgiving without Bill, and you’re all being so sweet.

  4. Don’t you worry about it for a second. We consider you part of our family, and if you can’t cry with your own family, where can you?

    I don’t want to spoil your lovely dinner. It just hits me sometimes that I’ll never see him again.

  5. You will see him again, Next-door Grandma! Next-door Grandpa is with Heavenly Father—I know he is!

  6. Oh, Mandy, I wish I knew that the way you do. But it makes me feel peaceful somehow to hear you say it. So you just go right on telling me, OK?

    OK.