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To: JDN who wrote (191737)	1/5/2007 7:43:53 AM
From: Ichy Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794488

I was telling my Mom about when she went back to work, I was 10 and my Brother was 6. We got home at 4:30 about having walked the mile home from school. My Dad didn't get home till 4:45 or so. The lady next door looked after us for 30 minutes every morning because we left for school at 8:30, and my Mom left at 8:00. The neighbour was talking about my brother and I, and said, "The poor waifs will have no one to care for them when they get home, so I try to keep an eye on them." I had no idea what Waifs were, and went to my mom and told her I didn't want to be a waif, and it wasn't fair that none of the other kids were poor waifs and why did I have to be one. She thought I was crazy. I remember thinking that 15 minutes with no parents was the best 15 minutes of the day. That was in 1957. 10 years later most of the women worked.