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CHAPTER SIXTEEN

THE 1980s-2000: A HAZY

REFLECTION

I
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. The company warned us 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 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.

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