mnottertail
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we might refer but rarely defer. Trouble is you are asking a question as large and varied in individual answer as every family that lived in the '50s. I could say; that we sat down at 6pm on the dot for supper and you better be there or it is your ass. I can say my father was in charge, and my mother DEFERRED to his wishes. I can say that children were to be seen and not heard. I can say women were homemakers, only the rare one had a job.... and usually had each other over for coffee, cake, bridge and swapped beauty secrets, and quilted, and crafted....and so on We didn't know about cholesterol and wouldnt have give a fiddlers fuck about it if we did. We ate simple fare, but ate like kings!!!! I can say that in middle america, you didnt have divorce, nor did you have gangs. I can say that were I to be down the basement at the workbench, making a pipe bomb, at some point in the black and white news with huntley/brinkley or the rattling of the newspaper, he would have yelled from his easy chair, what you doing son? I would have said, building a pipe bomb to blow up school, dad. He would say, come up here when you get done with that. I would have and he would have beat the shit out of me with it, and said that he would have to kill me because I obviously wasn't right in the fucking head and had no social graces. I can say just like billy joel----- the good old days weren't always good; and tomorrow's not as bright as it seems. So, that is a slice of what I saw....... Ron
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Have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two? Judges 5:30
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