To: SteveMcKing
We were so poor that after walking to school up hill through the snow (5 miles) and back home again all the way up hill... I slept standing up with my brothers over a clothes line stretched across the room. Wake-up an hour before dawn to milk the cow and prepare gruel and bread crusts for breakfast.
14 posted on
09/19/2007 12:03:50 AM PDT by
spokeshave
(Hey GOP...NO money till border closed and criminal illegals deported)
To: spokeshave
"House? You were lucky to have a HOUSE! We used to live in one room, all hundred and twenty-six of us, no furniture. Half the floor was missing; we were all huddled together in one corner for fear of FALLING!
More here.
25 posted on
09/19/2007 6:29:00 AM PDT by
BfloGuy
(It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect . . .)
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