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sentence: I was born in the Great Depression   to a carpenter   father and a home keeping mother.Our family had a large garden, raised two pigs for their meat, and had a cow for her milk.When Dad   [MASK]  his work, we started a laundry  in our home.This   hired  up to seven girls at one time.Dad also rented 12 acres of nearby land to  earn    a few extra dollars.