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Every now and then TIME publishes a story that stirs an unusually strong response among readers. Margie Brauer's moving letter to a court-appointed bankruptcy trustee detailing her family's losing battle to hold on to their North Carolina farm (NATION, Sept. 8) has elicited just such an outpouring. In the two weeks since Mrs. Brauer's account of hardworking folk facing bankruptcy appeared, TIME and the Brauers have been deluged with phone calls and letters from strangers offering to help. "People are very concerned," reports TIME Letters Chief Joan Walsh. "I think that the Brauers' decency has obviously...
Associate Editor Gregory Jaynes, who wrote the story that accompanied Margie Brauer's appeal for understanding -- in which she complained mildly about her old eyeglasses and her need for dental work -- is not surprised by the burst of sympathy. Jaynes first read her missive last July, after it was passed along to him by Senior Writer Frank Trippett, who received a copy from a friend at a North Carolina newspaper. "I was about halfway through reading it when I started crying," recalls Jaynes. "I thought, if I'm crying, this letter should reach daylight." His instincts proved correct. "Margie...
Ernest C. & Margie M. Brauer...
Margie M. Brauer...
...There is," Ernie said, and anyone hearing him would have wished for all the world that Ernest C. Brauer had an ace up his sleeve...