... time last year that featured a story about basketball star Karl Malone of the Utah Jazz. Karl's father left his wife and eight children when Karl was still very little. Shirley Malone raised the children by herself. She worked two jobs, and scrimped ... he got off the plane: telling his mother how much her letters had meant to him, and hearing his little nephews call him Uncle Michael. Patsy, a mother herself, was able to offer a sympathetic ear. She told him about her son's return from fighting in Guam. When ...
