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To: cosmicforce who wrote (95868)	2/16/2005 3:42:30 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

I think we are talking about slightly different times in America, cosmicforce. Because I think you are a bit younger than I am, my grandparents were older than yours. My grandmother started having children in 1907, and had her last child in 1927. She was not a professional person, but they lived in the south--Missouri, Oklahoma and later Texas--and from what she told me, having a maid was a very reasonable expenditure at that time. Strangely, my grandmother and her family of five children did not experience the Depression at all because my grandfather was a fireman. I have never understood why, really, except that it must have been a very secure job in a time of great insecurity generally. My grandfather had a beautiful, shiny black Packard that looked like it was about 30 feet long, and everyone was really well dressed in photos I have of them during this time. It would have been very difficult to be a single mother like your maternal grandmother. There were absolutely no government benefits at that time, as I understand. How did she and her family survive?