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Aren't We Winsome?
Twin Cities
1930?--
Molly and Betty Jo as little ones.
My mom cut off her family for most of her adult life, and never spoke about it, or explained it. But in her later years, Molly chased her down, and they became closer than ever. She was devasted when Molly died a couple years before she did. Her heart got a lot worse, and she never recovered. She said Molly was the only one who knew what they had lived through. They lost their mother, and their father (by his absence) when they were very young, and their poverty was was one of those Depression stories that makes people shudder. When I asked my mom if she read "Angela's Ashes," she said, "I lived it, in this country."