“My mom’s so funny, she lives in the south too and she’s still determined to keep me up to date every everybody that I grew up with,” Fortune begins. She goes into how Ginger always calls her to announce the deaths of neighborhood residents Fortune has no recollection of, then shares a hilarious and adorable text her mom sent her before her live show.
“If you want an idea of how she can brighten a day,” she says, “here’s an example. Real text: Did you know Vanessa Tate? She lived on Poplar Street. I went to school with her mother, Jan. We were in junior league together back in the day. Her father died a few months ago and her mother last week. They were 65 and 61, I wonder what happened. VERY SAD!”