Cecil Baldwin

Please be aware that local broadcasters might be influenced by the Code Indigo event to say that this broadcast is a test, but it is not a test.

Unless it is.

Because we do have to test the Code Indigo Emergency Broadcast just like any other.

If this is a Code Indigo Emergency and not a test, which it may or may not be, you must start driving out of town.

You must drive out of town and never come back.

If it is a test, don't do that.

Because then you will lose your house and all your stuff and have to make a new life somewhere else.

This has been a test of the emergency broadcast system.

Or has it been?

Ruth had a daughter.

She had been fully grown before Ruth moved to Los Angeles.

This isn't a story of an absentee parent, but it's not a story of a good parent either.

There was no animosity between them.

They talked on the phone once in a while, but also her daughter had not visited, not once in all this time.

Ruth instead had flown to her when she could afford to, which wasn't often.

Then, finally, her daughter did fly out.

Just for a visit, she said.

But really, it was to check in on her mother, who did not seem well.

Her mother was well, physically.

The machinery of her body was working as smoothly as it could at that age, but she did not seem well in a general life sense.