Hi, everyone!
I just wanted to know if there's anywhere I can e-mail Fran these days (mid-February, 2003) to tell her how much I still appreciate her! I read through an interview in the summer of 2002 that, with the anthrax scare, she isn't receiving regular "snail-mail"/fan mail any more.
Anyhow, I didn't get to see "The Nanny" in its initial run 'til its final season, when I finally got cable TV (in my small Pacific Northwest town, you can't even get the original three networks without cable, and I resisted the expense for several years--lamentably, missing out on the early years of the show). Once I saw my first episode, I loved the show from the start. My beloved mom (now, sadly, passed away) was a huge fan of the show from the start, and she and I used to phone each other up during the commercial breaks to chuckle and share about what was happening on the show.
Since then, I've been catching up on show through the syndicated episodes via the LIfetime cable network, for example. What a blessing!
What I really want to tell Fran is that, gosh, I find myself laughing more through just 10 minutes of re-runs of "The Nanny" than I would in any normal, several-day period of my life! Watching that show is the best medicine for me! The characters are just so wonderful, and the writing, which resonates from the characters, is just so perfect and moving and funny.
Anyhow, if anyone knows how to contact Fran, could you please let me know? One other story I'd like to tell her is just how much I was moved during the episode when "Mr. Sheffield" realizes how much she loves the children, and how he substitutes the "pre-nup" papers for adoption papers. It so resonated with me because the mom who raised me and loved me was my stepmom/adoptive mom--the one I used to laugh with over the phone about the latest "Nanny" episode.
I first saw the abovementioned episode just recently, three-and-a-half years after my beloved adoptive mom passed away. The next morning I realized that she probably saw that episode when it was originally aired and that she might have seen so many parallels in our own lives--my life did not begin until she came into our family. Realizing the connection that I was seeing this episode now, years after her death, and seeing all the wonderful parallels between what the Nanny brought to those children and what my mom brought to my life and my dad's life made me just weep then, and I'm weeping as I write this.
Thank you, Fran, for making the world see that real love transcends the bond of blood. My beloved stepmom/adoptive mom remains the most important person who ever crossed the pathways of my life.
I wish I knew a way to convey these thoughts directly to Fran!
Fran, the very best blessings of this life to you!
Love, and best regards,
Jo-Ski
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