Never forget this on Thanksgiving, that we are lucky:

[applegrove]

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[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. I can't begin to imagine.

I have at times in my life been relatively poor, but never to that point.

[applegrove]

2. Yes. I've never had to worry about where my next meal would come from.

[Cha]

3. Awww..

Very grateful for what we have

[AJT]

4. The closest I've come to that is having to make kraft macaroni and cheese

with water to feed my kids. I was working 3 jobs and going to junior college, but I knew I would have a decent job after I graduated. I didn't have to live my whole life in want.

[applegrove]

5. Tough stuff. But you had reason to hope.

[AJT]

6. I did. I ended up making a very good living as a systems programmer.

[applegrove]

7. I wish i had the knack for language. I took one computer coding class.

It was fun to solve problems but there was no way i was going to remember the language i learned. I actually built a webpage that was up for a few years but that is only because i could use what you see is what you get software. And i could do it over the long term. Programming must be great fun i always thought.

[AJT]

13. Honestly, I didn't like my work. Linear thinking is not my nature.

I diid what I did to support my family. I worked with computers for 36 years and couldn't wait to retire I almost never use a computer now. I use my phone or tablet for almost everything.

[emmaverybo]

8. Need reminding. I am grateful for my random luck, unearned, and unjust, for many go to bed hungry,

or have no bed, or are taken from their beds and slaughtered all over the world.

[sammythecat]

11. I really like what you said here. Every word.

It's the truth. We are lucky.

[LittleGirl]

9. My Mother grew up like that

she was a daughter of a share cropper.

[applegrove]

10. Vibes to your mom and her family.

[LittleGirl]

12. She's 87

And pretty much broken with arthritis. Thanks for the good wishes.

She never liked camping because she had to use outhouses growing up.

[applegrove]

15. No doubt.

[Lars39]

14. Mine, too.

Horribly hard life.

[applegrove]

16. Vibes.