“One of our early memories was our mom at the dining room table holding The Cleveland Plain Dealer,” said Allison, calling from Pasadena, California. “She was laughing so hard that the newspaper was shaking. We’re going, ‘Mom, what’s so funny?”
“The only two words she could manage to get out were ‘Erma Bombeck.’ Shortly after that, we’d come home from school and fling the paper down on the ground so we could both read her column at the same time.”
