I think my parents worked really hard to give us kids the impression we were middle class, but I think the reality was much less.
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Replying to @DrChako2 @realdawnsummers
It was hard to deny one winter when we couldn't pay for heat and we brought portable kerosene heaters into the living room and all slept there. Wasn't safe. But at least it was warm.
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Replying to @realdawnsummers @DrChako2
We were lucky though. We always had food. We always had our home. We usually had things that kids would want to have around. It got better when we got older once our dad got a stable job. It was two parents who never graduated college working their asses off for us.
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Living on a small family farm in the 80s, we were literally dirt poor. Birthday and Christmas gifts were clothes. Every year nearly losing the farm. Having a massive garden so we didn’t buy much food.
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That's a whole kind of life I can't even imagine. We lived in a row home in the middle of the city. Our "backyard" was about 200 square feet (maybe). One of the places we like to play as kids was a parking lot of some business connected to the alley out back.
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Right back at ya. I never understood growing up in a city or even suburb until I went to college and realized how different everyone else was.
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