re: #50 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

my mom was a widow, we got by on Social Security and her working for cash money at a used appliance and furniture store.

never got into the money-as-an-end-in-itself thing

Mine didn’t quite qualify as widow—she didn’t get a ring. Thus no Gold Star, no GI insurance, no folded flag, no SS. She was a Practical Nurse, which was rated as a domestic servant for SS purposes. We ate most days, weren’t very good about paying the rent.