Destiny Mathis wrote to President Obama after she lost her job last year because of complications with her pregnancy. She’d been the top of her college class and had years of work under her belt as a surgical technologist, but after months of unemployment she was afraid that she and her three children were about to become victims of the economy.
Now she’s selling her handwritten letter from the President on an auction website in the hopes that the money she earns from the sale will help her keep her home. The Mathis family is weeks away from eviction, a future that Destiny foresaw in her letter to the president.
“I am so afraid this dreaded economy is going to have my family homeless,” she wrote, according to NBC5, the Chicago network affiliate.
The president’s reply, was confident. Hopefully. ”Please know that things will get better for you and your family,” he said.
Now it seems the historical value of his words is the only hope the Mathis’ have for things to get better.
Destiny is selling the note via Gary Zimet, who has sold eight similar letters from Obama so far on his site, Moments in Time. He’s asking for $11,000.
