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11 Alcatraz

Over time a complicated family economy came into being.  It didn’t really “develop.”  More than anything it simply seemed to happen.  It began with the chickens.  As soon as they were big enough, we began to eat the roosters.  We … 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

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