Ladies and gentlemen,

This episode hit home to me as my mother was adopted by a loving central Illinois farm family around 1935 (and I promise you that though they watched their money well and raised their kids well, they didn\'t have much) from a catholic orphanage in circumstance much like Fred Gwynne and his wife (played by the wonderful Evie Juster) adopted the girl in the show (whose voice was also done by Ms. Juster...sometimes her \"little child\" voice could be grating (like Joan Shay\'s \"frumpy old woman\" or Lloyd Battista\'s \"hoarse irish cop\"), but unlike the latter two, there were times when her \"child\" voice was very well placed and utilized by the RMT producers writers).

Someone once posted about this show that they thought it would have been good to have an abuse hotline number mentioned by E.G. at show\'s end (they weren\'t doing that much then as I recall except around things like telethons). Adoption\'s something one mustn\'t rush into and must prayerfully consider, but I must say that this episode led me to prayerfully consider adoption for our family.<br>