I am writing to thank you for all the wonderful books you have sent me

Dear Mark Hamilton, I am writing to thank you for all the wonderful books you have sent me. They have given me a reason to live. When I received your first book, it changed my life completely, for I had been looking for what you are doing all my life and could not find it. I read your book from cover to cover, then read it again to make sure I understood all that you were telling me, and then once again, and after that could hardly wait until I got another book. I have read nine of your books and am still looking forward to the changes you are making.

I have been so very ill for the past six years, with four strokes, five heart attacks in two days, gallbladder surgery, and cancer, and for the past eight years have been so very ill from the side effects of chemo and radiation that I could not live a normal life. I have just spent 10 days in the hospital from poison leaching out of a camera I had to swallow while they were trying to find internal bleeding. I had to go to the emergency room because the pain was so severe I could hardly breathe, and they did a CAT scan and found the camera, but had to do surgery to get it out and do some more repair work from the cancer. Then I had a week of stomach and intestine wash, with no food or water for eight days.

It has been a month and five days since I got home, but I am still sore and weak and can only do a few things before I have to stop. At least I can eat, which is more than I have been able to do in eight years. So now I can begin to make plans for what I can do to help you, for your people are what I have been looking for all my life, and I can hardly wait until I can help. I am 83 years old next month, but I can still help change this country to a wonderful place to live in again. Happy people, with morals, who help one another in every way possible. No man is an island, and must help everyone who needs help as much as possible. That is what I do now: help the little children and the service people.

I cannot help as much as I want to, because I had enormous storm damage to my house and yard the past two years and just recently got it all repaired like it should be, and added a few other things to make it easier for me as I get older. I am working hard with my computer, though I have not had much time to learn about it, because I had to take care of my husband when he came home after 16 months in the VA hospital. I took care of him for 8 months and was so weak I could not do it anymore, so I put him in a nursing home so I could rest a little, but he died within a week. That was a year ago, and I kept going downhill and could not get back on my feet until I had to have someone help me every day. Fortunately I found a good person, and I think I am on the road to recovery.

I may be on my feet by Christmas and able to help by then, so keep in touch and tell me what I can do to help as much as possible. Thank you again for all the years you have spent working to help all of us. I have learned there is nothing like helping other people, and even if I cannot do what I want to do at the moment, I can still help as much as possible. I hope with all my heart that you succeed in what you are trying to do, for we all need it so desperately. Looking forward to hearing from you again.

Louise Morton