Dear Eric: I had to smile when I read your article about the Good Samaritan receiving $100 for helping an injured child.

While growing up in the ‘40s and ’50s I lived on a single block long, dead-end street where we must have had at least 15 or 20 kids. Someone was always getting hurt, mostly scratches and bruises, but once in a while a broken bone. My mother, the only nurse on the block, was the local emergency room.

I don’t believe she ever received money for her efforts, and I doubt if she would have accepted it, if offered.

Although she didn’t reap the benefits of her work, I was the beneficiary. At her death I received a number of letters telling me how grateful they were for what she had done.

She also was the den mother of a cub scout pack that was so popular that she had to re

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