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13 Chickens
For various reasons, chickens became extraordinarily important. Not long after we moved in that spring, Dad and Mom bought two dozen baby chicks. They put a large cardboard box on the floor of the little shed attached to the house. … Continue reading
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12 The Calf That Peed
Dad soon realized a way to expand our rationing coupons for gas and tires and such. He found and bought a Buick as a second car. I think it was a Buick. It was old and tired and rusted. … Continue reading
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08 Rationing
As a child I accepted the world as “given.” It is the way it was because that’s the way it was. That’s how I related to the world in which I found myself. I was on the “home front.” I … Continue reading
01 Milking the Cow
In the years before World War II, Mom and Dad were migrant workers. Summers they worked in the lettuce sheds in Salinas, Mom trimming and Dad packing. In winter they’d go to Arizona, somewhere near Yuma I think, to work … Continue reading
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