Reply #145: you've summed up my life there

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My family was poor. There was a reason for it however (my father worked 3 jobs and my mother had a full-time job and as for the kids (meaning myself and sibling), we were what are now called "latch-key" children as there was no money for something called "day-care" or a "babysitter"; we ran home from school and locked the doors).

I had a younger brother that was very sick and my parents spent all of their money on him. He was in various homes, hospitals, institutions, etc.

He lived to be 48 years old, dying one year after my mother. I'm glad he outlived her because it would have absolutely killed her to know that her son that she and my father had worked themselves to death to care for had died while the rest of the family sacrificed and paid the price.

It was a sad way to grow up and when it came to things like college, it was "sorry kid, we don't have money for that kind of thing - go get a job".

As for my late brother ... :cry: