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To: Ditto
Both parents were immigrants to this country. Neither of my parents finished highschool, infact, my father never even completed grade school. He worked first as a laborer on the New York Central Railroad and then as a Track Foreman until he retired around 1970 at the age of 65. He died in 1978. My mother quit school when she was 16 to marry my father. He would never let her work outside the home, although she did do some laundry and housecleaning for people on our street. She died at age 69 in 1990. I was the only one of the four kids in our family to go to college. My brother was a Vietnam vet (66'67 in Nam). He did not graduate from highschool, but enlisted at the age of 21 and got his GED when he returned home. He died in 1995 at the age of 51. My oldest sister, born in '40 is in a nursing home. My other sister, born in '42 retired from the phone company when she was 50. We three girls are the only ones left in the family.

Does this background mean I can run for President?

27 posted on 07/14/2004 10:08:55 AM PDT by mass55th
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To: mass55th

I should add that I went to college full-time nights and worked full-time days, while I raised two boys alone. I was divorced by the time I started college.


29 posted on 07/14/2004 10:11:45 AM PDT by mass55th
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