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CHAPTER SIXTEEN

The 1980’-2000 Pass Like A Burr Reflection

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t was during this time that we bought the house. I was working
three jobs at one time to pay for it—or die trying. I had an

assembly job at General Electric. My husband was a presser in a
garment factory. All was going well until the union started nosing

around. We were warned by the company that if they came in, we
would lose our jobs. They did come in, and of course, we were locked

out—never to go back in again. My world slowly fell apart from then

on; everything went wrong.

I was just going from home to home cleaning to pay for this house. My

husband would stay home writing songs. I came home one evening to
find the curtain at the kitchen window burnt off. I was told that my

daughter did it. Guess she was making a statement.

Then the recession hit. Companies were closing everywhere; there was
no work to be found. Banks were closing everywhere. We could not

hold on to the house any longer, so we lost everything. At that time, we
had a little baby girl to take care of, who thought that her sinister sister

was her mother, and I was her grandmother—because that’s what she

was told.

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