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I was born a long, long time ago!  My life started out living in a one-bedroom house with Dad, Mom, and two older sisters.  We had running water, hot water and heat but no indoor bathroom.  One evening when a cousin was babysitting, there was tornado strength winds that blew our outhouse over.  Dad was a pretty resourceful guy and went to work installing a flush toilet in our home.  We moved from that house to a grand 3-bedroom home!  It was luxury to us.  The family grew to add a boy and another girl so we were now a family of seven.  The only boy of course got his own bedroom and the four girls shared one.  Bunk beds were very necessary.  One bathroom was shared by all with a claw-foot bathtub.  Showers were not much of a thing then. I remember the odd number of people in the family sometimes being a problem as food items usually came in even number packs.  Pop was six-packs.  Donuts were packages of six or eight so we w...