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> From: Victoria Panos <satyrchick@home.com>
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> Colin:
> "My opinion and 2 cents won't buy you a damn thing, so...."
>
> Oh, but it would have at one point.  Just ask someone who lived through
> the Great Depression.  "Or, don't even bother asking.  Just stand next
> to them for more than two minutes, and they'll tell you about it.
>

Actually, both my parents lived thru it (my mother, born in 1933, my late
father born in 1929). My dad didn't talk that much about it (too busy
keeping us a roof over our heads), and my mom, she talks sometimes,
(4 of her brothers and sisters died before they were 5 because they
pretty much starved to death (as in not enough nutrition; Red Cross'
idea of healthy was a dose of Cod Liver Oil every week to ward off
nutrition-deficient diseases), but doesn't like to talk too much about
the big picture, but little things (like when the dog a mile or so away
from school would try and grab 'em, and after her daddy got wind of it
the dog SOMEHOW ended up with it's throat slit...), like that. She
has been at times a walking regional history book, some dealing
with the effort during WWII (she remembered that when the news
hit Cattletsburg (KY) of the atomic bombing of  Hiroshima,
(08/06/45), some people actually cried in the street when the news
broke). It was from her that I started to appreciate the learning of
history, both on the local level and from a world view. Even tho'
I am 37, I will always learn from someone older and more experienced
than myself. (Of course, I can also learn from those younger than myself,
which would probably be 95% of this ML..., but not for nothing do I
call myself The Relic...).
And as such, this is The Relic, from the edges of the reality known as
the Ranma ML...