Ordinary L.A. People
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* Sandy Banks writes such good columns about her life and the lives of the type of people who read your paper here in the San Fernando Valley. She brings to life the stories of the ordinary people that make up the majority of your readership. Middle-class people, educated, married with children, living relatively stable lives, trying to do their best for their family, their schools, their community. Quietly struggling to make a go of family life in confusing times.
We don’t do drugs, rob or rape, destroy our neighborhoods, “cook the books,” steal from stores or our employers or the government. Our lives aren’t sexy or flashy but people like me and families like mine are what make this community function. This is the good part of Los Angeles and especially of the Valley that sometimes seems to have been left out of the Los Angeles Times.
DIANA DIXON-DAVIS
Chatsworth
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