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ooartto, ixw, ropoo* wo» tuna can* ot pamt.
‘‘You novor know whan you might oood this,* Dad wag ofton hoard to say. Joo Adoltl grow up as child aumbor ftvo of my grandparouts 13 babio*. IVu *urvivod childhood disoasos.
During tho Groat Doprossion thw family livwd on a small farm just outsido of town whoro thoy had a "throo holor." Ho oitou told us siortos of tying burlap bags around his knooa us ho worked during- cold weath* or out in tho muck land rich black dirt that w»» tort do* productivo and holpod this largo family to survivo hard timos.
My Dad's purouts woro immigrants from tho povorty of Southom Italy. During tho Dop»vi**uon
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