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Pat, your mother was such a strong woman. I love the fact that in later years she began painting. She had a tremendous gift and she used it wisely. I love her determination to survive. I will be voting as I always have for so many reasons.
posted by
Goldiec
on April 16, 2023 at 5:34 AM
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DeSantis and his goons would be laughable if they were not so scary. I still don't understand why any woman ...scratch that....why any reasonably intelligent person would even listen, let alone vote for him and his like. Fortunately, reading Twiitter shows us that not ALL conservatives are off the wall, there are some who have a decent grasp on reality. Unfortunately, the wanna-be conservative leader up here is sounding like he emerged from the same sh*t can as DeSantis
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adnohr
on April 16, 2023 at 4:34 AM
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Your mother had enormous strength of character to survive and to bring you children up properly and with education and security. If she wasn't always sweetly smiling at you on sight, her shortness of temper due to worry and her head down determined to survive obviously didn't harm you. Her life was tough.
posted by
Kabu
on April 15, 2023 at 12:07 PM
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Good afternoon
What a strong woman your mother was. My guess is that your dad was protected in Massachusetts due to it being a Commonwealth state like Pennsylvania where garnished wages are not enforced. As for the voting, you can bet that I will be at the polls.
posted by
Sherri_G
on April 15, 2023 at 10:01 AM
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Oh my! She certainly sounds like "a never say die" lady. I have much respect for her and for your family. Life was not all that easy for our family either, seven children in a small house, but my mom and dad were hard workers and kept things together and it gradually got better for all of us.
posted by
TAPS.
on April 15, 2023 at 8:11 AM
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Thank you for asking. Mom hung on by the skin of her teeth until my brother graduated from high school. Then, while he was at National Guard camp, she moved to Salem, Oregon where my younger sis had moved during her senior year. My older sis helped mother get a little house near her, and she found sales work at a dept. store. She decided to enroll in night school and earn her GED (her stepfather had yanked her out of school in 7th grade). While there she also took art lessons, learned oil painting, etc. She began painting landscapes and still-lifes, taught an art class at the senior center, sold many of her paintings. She lived to be 93 years old.
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Pat_B
on April 15, 2023 at 7:05 AM
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Through the years here at Blogit I have read bits and pieces that you wrote about your mom. I have always wondered how things turned out for her. Did she ever get ahead to the point where life was not so hard for her and her family. I have always felt compasionate toward her even though I knew her not and hoped that she had a wonderful time of easier living.
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TAPS.
on April 15, 2023 at 6:52 AM
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He will be throwing his hat into the presidential run 
posted by
Annicita
on April 15, 2023 at 6:35 AM
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