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Our school back in the 1940-1950's had a blind piano tuner and once when I visited my grandmother on the other side of the town (2 bus rides away) I found him tuning her piano. I couldn't believe how independant he was to be able to go about his business catching buses, etc., on his own. and guess what - when I walked into my grandmother's & greeted her he recognised my voice !!!
lol skb I carried on working too when I married back in the 1960's but like most of my generation I gave up work for a few years to raise children until the youngest one went to school. On the other hand my mother, her sisters & their friends all gave up work permanently. I did ask why they didn't carry on working until they had their first child - apparently the new husband's pride didn't want anyone to think he couldn't support a wife. (I think I had my first feminist feeling - who on earth did these men think they were!!) Now that I'm older and wiser, I think they had enough to do without wearing their fingers to the bone over a extra sheckels which were whittled away before you even took your money home, such as travel, food breaks, not to mention the weekly collections for somebody leaving, marrying, having a baby or a birthday, etc., etc.
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