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@taci,

Good morning in S. California and may this day find you doing well. 🎈😎
Head up just as I was about to post to you that error message came up.
So here we go again.

I am going to wish you a nice month for the Merry Month of June. 😎🎈

This is my mother’s birthday month so this month is very special to me. 💕😘

Enjoy the trails and keep safe. 😎

@oodiebom,

Good day on the Gulf Coast of Florida. 😎🎈Hopefully you are feeling better.
Enjoy the new month and the new week.

May your area get some sweet and gentle rain soon. 💕😎

Please take care and take your time today. 🎈

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She was hired to clean the house and cook the meals, but she ended up holding a fortune that could have bought a mansion. Yet, nobody knew her secret until it was too late.
If you walked into the Disney family home in the 1950s, you would have found a quiet woman in the kitchen making dinner. Her name was Thelma Howard. To the world, she was just the maid. To Walt Disney, she was the real-life Mary Poppins.
Thelma came from a life of hardship. Born in a small town in Idaho in 1913, she lost her mother when she was just six years old. Tragedy struck again when her sister died in a terrible accident at home.
With very little school education but a strong will to survive, she packed her bags at age 18 and moved to California looking for work.
In 1951, she knocked on the door of Walt Disney. He hired her as a live-in housekeeper and cook. Thelma quickly became much more than an employee. She filled the house with warmth, looked after Walt’s daughters, Diane and Sharon, and made sure the fridge was always stocked with Walt’s favorite cold hot dogs.
Walt loved her dedication. He wanted to show his appreciation in a way that went beyond a weekly paycheck. So, every Christmas and birthday, Walt handed Thelma a special bonus: shares of stock in the Walt Disney Company.
At the time, those pieces of paper did not look like much. But Thelma had a quiet wisdom. She never cashed them in. She did not buy fancy cars or expensive jewelry.
She just put the certificates away in a drawer and went back to work, scrubbing floors and making meals for thirty years until she retired in 1981.
Walt often told people, “She is the heart of our home.”
When Thelma passed away in 1993, the lawyers opened her files and gasped. Those holiday gifts from Walt had grown during the entertainment boom. Thelma Howard, the humble maid, died a multi-millionaire with an estate worth over 9 million dollars.
But the biggest surprise was what she decided to do with every single cent.
Thelma did not forget where she came from, and she did not forget the struggles of children. In her final will, she split her massive fortune into two equal parts.
She left half of the money, nearly 4.5 million dollars, to take care of her son, Michael, who lived with a severe developmental disability and needed lifelong medical assistance.
The other half of her millions went to start the Thelma Pearl Howard Foundation. She wanted this money to fund art, music, and writing programs for poor and disadvantaged children in Los Angeles.
She spent her whole life serving others from the shadows, never asking for fame or applause. Through her kindness and quiet patience, she turned her daily hard work into a legacy of love that still helps children follow their dreams today.
True magic does not come from a movie studio or a theme park castle. It lives in the hearts of generous people like Thelma, who remind us that the greatest thing you can do with a fortune is to give it away to those who need it most.

Good morning Peeps and enjoy the HSN Community. 😎🎈

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