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From: Buddy McPeters
Date: October 17, 2003
I just finished Rosetta's book myself and I found it a particularly engaging read. Thanx for writing it Rosetta, I really loved it! I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to read about Bob Wills. This is a very unique story from a very personal and unique vantage point. Great insight considering both her position in the Wills family and out of it as well. I wish more sons and daughters of celebrities would write about their illustrious parents. I would also hope that more of them that do would enjoy the healing and exhibit the grace and class that Rosetta has. I rate it right up there with Susie Nelson's biography on her father Willie Nelson, "Heart Worn Memories", which is a great book too. Kudos to you, Rosetta! I think you have been given some bad press by a couple of individuals who were hoping for some kind of tabloid 'tell-all' book with sordid details to anecdotes about Bob which are best left let be. The accusation that you wrote your book with Townsend's and or Stricklin's book open before you are completely unfounded and unfair. You present an entirely different view of the same person both from a child's eyes from your memories and also your reflections now as an adult, separating the man from the legend and the musician from the myth. Your compelling book belongs on the same shelf as Ruth Sheldon's "Hubbin' It", Charles Townsend's "San Antonio Rose", and Al Stricklin's "My Years With Bob Wills." Proud to add it to my collection. Buddy