Carol Burnett

And so I'm reading my fan mail this one night and this was in December of 66 and we were going to go on in the fall of 67.

And I'm opening up this letter and it's from this 17-year-old girl

Vicki Lawrence, who's very nice letter saying people say that I remind them of you, a young you.

And then she enclosed a newspaper article that had her picture in it.

She looked.

So much like me when I was 17.

I thought, oh, that's interesting.

And then in the article, they said she was going to be in a contest called Miss Fireball of Inglewood with eight other girls.

And so the local paper was doing a bit on each one of those girls.

This was her article.

And then I look at the date.

the contest is tonight.

The letter had been sent three weeks ago and they got to me from CBS.

It's tonight.

So my husband's coming downstairs and I said, don't get too comfortable.

We're going to the Miss Fire Bowl contest tonight.

He said, what?

And I showed him the article.

I said,

Okay, but shouldn't you try to tell her?