[Ads-l] "forever home"

[Nancy Friedman]

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:

> 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/
>
> [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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