In my case, three of my last grandparents were peasants-farmers during childhood, moved to the city as adults.
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My father was a tool salesman (Snap-On) until he was fired, and is now a flower deliveryman. My mother is a schoolteacher, and is the only one in that generation (or before) of ancestors to graduate from university. 2/~50 of my first cousins graduated from university.
None of my grandparents worked as farmers. Both of my grandfathers worked in "industrial" jobs (one in a manufacturing plant and one in an auto repair shop), and their wives were....housewives, I suppose.
Of my great-grandfathers worked for a railroad as a signalman. I don't know what the other three did.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
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My father picked cotton.What can make a nigga wanna fight a whole night club/Figure that he ought to maybe be a pimp simply 'cause he don't like love/What can make a nigga wanna achy, break all rules/In a book when it took a lot to get you hooked up to this volume/
What can make a nigga wanna loose all faith in/Anything that he can't feel through his chest wit sensation
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Originally posted by Barnabas View PostIn my case, three of my last grandparents were peasants-farmers during childhood, moved to the city as adults.
(I have been informed by her that only blacks were sharecroppers, even though her family otherwise met all the criteria).Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.
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Practically all my great grandparents were born into peasant families, but used the opportunities provided by the young Soviet state to get an education.Graffiti in a public toilet
Do not require skill or wit
Among the **** we all are poets
Among the poets we are ****.
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My mother's mother's family raised chickens during the Depression. My grandmother was the only one of the children who was willing to chop the chickens' heads off. I suppose that makes her a peasant/farmer.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld
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Okay.Click here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La Rochefoucauld
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