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Emma: “The Depression, now when was that? I don’t think that it affected folks around here much. Everyone always raised enough to keep themselves. If you were a farmer’s wife, you learned to sew and that was that. Everyone raised their own corn. People around here didn’t know anything about biscuits. It was
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