[Ads-l] "forever home"

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Excellent essay, Nancy.

On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 9:45 PM Nancy Friedman <wordworking at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Thanks to Stephen Goranson and Garson O'Toole for their help with "forever
> home" citations! I've published a blog post about "forever home" and other
> examples of adjectival "forever":
> https://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2021/10/forever-words.html
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> On Fri, Oct 22, 2021 at 8:39 AM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> > Nancy Friedman wrote:
> > > Many thanks! Garson's citations are what I'd been looking for.
> >
> > Glad to help. Below is a slightly earlier match in October 1958. The
> > term was used by four-year-old Tommy and the "Children's Bureau".
> >
> > Date: October 16, 1958
> > Newspaper: Journal-Every Evening
> > Newspaper Location: Wilmington, Delaware
> > Article: Tommy 4, Finds a Home
> > Quote Page 25, Column 6 and 8
> > Database: Newspapers.com
> >
> > https://www.newspapers.com/image/154363192/
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> > [Begin excerpt - double-check text]
> > On one of their various "getting ready" trips Tommy tentatively asked
> > his case worker "Will this be a forever home?"
> > . . .
> > Finding just this kind of adoption family for Tommy, and helping them
> > to understand Tommy and all he wanted and needed from a "forever home"
> > of his own is a part of the Bureau's adoption service.
> > [End excerpt]
> >
> > Garson
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