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leftofcool

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4. Actually, it wasn't easier
Wed May 13, 2015, 09:14 AM
May 2015

I grew up during that time. I graduated from High School is 1966. There were no student loans so I had to work my way through college because my dad, while considered middle class, could not afford to send me. My mother worked part time to make ends meet as did most of the mothers I knew. We had only one car. My dad had to work for 35 years for the Post Office before he could retire based on a shitty base salary that didn't even cover basic living expenses. Nothing has changed.

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