Grasping the edge of whatever might deter her from simply yielding to all that which bombarded her young person and breaking, not knowing if whether or not the next moment there would come an explosion of Nazi soldiers into their final place of hope and security. Perhaps it may interest you to be presented with an intricate listing of all we have accumulated for survival purposes, our hope naturally being that we will not have to use it in conditions other than the ordinary, that the electricity will remain. Canned foods include beans, beef, chicken, evaporated milk, fruits, nacho cheese, sausage and vegetables, while we ve large quantities of baking powder, crackers, dry milk, flower, gelatin, noodles, peanut butter, salt, sugar, tea and great stacks of whole wheat. Our water accommodations include four thirty-gallon garbage cans, approximately one hundred milk jugs, and an equal amount of liter bottles. This is, if noting truly takes place.
Life is a brief and hurtling day, Pain and striving fill every page.
Just time enough to glance around, Register a face or sound and life s been around. I shall take this spare moment to relay the coming of the millennium, which has quite obviously caused us no harm, both physically and economically. We are all well and safe in our homes, and Y2K seems merely a nightmare that fortunately never happened. On New Years Eve we were unspeakably taken aback when China was not affected by the turning of the century, and all were equally relieved when midnight struck in Time Square in downtown New York City, and all went as scheduled, even to the dropping of the spectacular crystal ball. I would rather have the reputation of a coward than be huddling in our basement at this very minute, eating out of a can and in dire need of showering.