This Is Why Moms Rule (Other Than Giving Birth To You)—They Save Your Baseball Cards From A Raging Fire

Out in Los Angeles, there’s a fire about every three days. The most recent is the one currently burning near the Sepulveda Pass, close to where 80% of the porn in America is made. But we’re not here to talk about porn, but a wonderful mama named Flo. Mama Flo, 87, is in the middle of the fire’s path so she had only a little bit of time before she had to up and leave. That means she had to prioritize and take only the most important things out of her house, like insurance papers and the baseball cards her son gave her to hold on to when he had to evacuate because of a fire three days earlier. Man, we hope there weren’t any 1988 Greg Jeffries Future Stars in that batch. That’d be a waste.

Bernstein was “very worried about the house. … It looked like the fire was racing up behind my house.”

Bernstein said she changed into a lavender sweatsuit and grabbed some shoes and some insurance papers that were sitting on the table. Then she packed up four boxes of her son’s baseball cards, which he had given to her for safekeeping when he was evacuated from his house in Porter Ranch during a fire there last week.

“I grabbed the cards this morning — that’s why I didn’t get my glasses,” she said.

So what do you give a mother who saved your previous baseball cards from a raging fire, even sacrificing her glasses? Her pick of wife for you? Move within a mile radius? Call her more than once a month? How much would those cards mean to you?
Mother’s Day can’t come soon enough for this mom [LA Times]
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