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  Hey Mom: I want you to know that I’m taking better care of myself. I wish everyone would take better care of themselves. Christine is doing all she can to take better care of herself. Now we just need the world to do the same.

  You were and still are the best mom ever. I’m finished with the book but I’ll keep talking about you and to you forever.

  Love & gratitude,

  Louie, Ora’s son

  Acknowledgments

  Many people were helpful to me in making this book. Thank you to my brothers, sisters, and considerable family, to Abraham Geisness, Ahmos Hassan, Yfat Reiss Gendell, Susan Moldow, Matthew Benjamin, Madeleine Morel, Eve and Glenn Schwartz, Nicole Favale, everyone at FX, and my Baskets family.

  Most important, thank you to Andrew Postman, who made the impossible possible by helping a procrastinating kid from the Roosevelt Projects who hated homework and finishing things do that homework and finish this book, a tribute to my beautiful, deserving mother. Thanks, Andy!

  Thank you all for helping me do more and be more—and say just enough!

  Love,

  Louie

  About the Author

  Ora Zella Anderson (my mom)

  Louie Anderson is an Emmy Award-winning actor and stand-up comedian named by Comedy Central as one of the “100 Greatest Stand-Up Comedians of All Time.” He created and produced the animated Fox series Life with Louie, based on his childhood. Most recently, he has co-starred on Baskets with Zach Galifianakis, playing a character based on his own mother. Hey Mom is his fourth book.

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  Front jacket photograph Courtesy of FX

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  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

  Names: Anderson, Louie, author.

  Title: Hey mom : stories for my mother, but you can read them too / by  Louie Anderson.

  Description: New York : Touchstone, [2018] Identifiers: LCCN 2017059109 | ISBN 9781501189173 (hardcover) |  ISBN 9781501196379 (hardcover [signed])

  Subjects: LCSH: Anderson, Louie. | Anderson, Louie—Family. | Mothers—  United States. | Mother and child—United States. | Comedians—Family  relationships—United States.

  Classification: LCC HQ759 .A4935 2018 | DDC 306.874/3—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017059109

  ISBN 978-1-5011-8917-3

  ISBN 978-1-5011-8919-7 (ebook)