For forty years, Betty and I lived by the ultimate American rule: mind your business, work hard, and take care of your own.
We survived corporate layoffs, the housing crash, and burying our husbands.
Our kids grew up, chased out-of-state jobs to places like Texas and Oregon, and left us behind in our quiet suburban subdivision.
We were fiercely independent. We still drove. We stubbornly shoveled our own walkways.
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