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In reply to the discussion: Amazon did not "invent" home delivery [View all]LeftInTX
(25,245 posts)37. Oh that is cool!! Love it!!
The elders in my family are gone.
We lost an aunt last week. (Actually my dad's cousin, so I wasn't too close to her) She was 93 and had 6 wonderful children. She was in assisted living and was declining before corona virus. She had moved to Tennessee to live near her daughter a few years ago, and her children were scattered all over the country. I think of how hard this is for them.
I assume they are having zoom meetings, but they were a close family. My aunt was a talented violinist and all of her children are so musically talented. Their get togethers have always been talent shows. It's so hard that they can't have a funeral and get together with their family.
We lost an aunt last week. (Actually my dad's cousin, so I wasn't too close to her) She was 93 and had 6 wonderful children. She was in assisted living and was declining before corona virus. She had moved to Tennessee to live near her daughter a few years ago, and her children were scattered all over the country. I think of how hard this is for them.
I assume they are having zoom meetings, but they were a close family. My aunt was a talented violinist and all of her children are so musically talented. Their get togethers have always been talent shows. It's so hard that they can't have a funeral and get together with their family.
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"Home delivery used to be the norm". My tired brain went to "the Wells Fargo Wagon" scenei
niyad
Apr 2020
#1
We had a milkman and a bread man. Couldn't have had Xmas without Montgomery Ward
Walleye
Apr 2020
#2
I'm old enough to remember having a milk man who delivered dairy products, eggs and sometimes
totodeinhere
Apr 2020
#12
Helms bakery trucks with the pull out drawers full of fresh donuts. Yum!
SammyWinstonJack
Apr 2020
#13
The paper-only version will have special editions, "in-depths", "investigations", "commerations"
LeftInTX
Apr 2020
#36