well, being "silly poor" and really poor, are two different things!
we were always taught that you were only poor,if you choose to be!
at christmas,i got as small brown paper bag with an apple,an orange and a peppermint candy stick! that was it and no more and i thought that i was the only kid on the block to have as much for christmas!!
and many times at the supper table us kids ate a piece of fried fat back,a biscuit and some pinto beans!
it was at that moment in my young life when i first wondered how the poor folks on tne other side of the tracks ,were getting along!
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