In 1929 the stock market crashed. North America was pushed in chaos. People jumped from tall buildings. Virtually everyone was affected. Weather patterns contributed to this economic storm. The “dirty thirties” was a time of poor crops and people losing their livelihoods. My Dad as a young preacher was given a part time government job. One of his jobs was to probe the ground with a long rod to determine where bodies were buried in a graveyard. It was in the middle of this decade that I was born. I had been conceived just before my Dad was elected to the House of Commons of Canada and I was born just after. World War II was declared in 1939 – four years after I was born. Uh Oh. I just let the cat out of the bag. For many years I have told my kids my age was 189.
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Life can only be understood backward, but it must be lived forward.
– Kierkegaard