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littlemissmartypants

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8. I'm sure that you are right. My grandmother was fluent in Latin with a high school education.

Reply to jimfields33 (Reply #7)

Fri Jul 30, 2021, 02:02 AM

Jul 2021

But she started high school in the early 1930's. Lots of things have changed in our beloved country since then.

It's never one thing that should be attributed to such factors and changes. It's always more complicated. I shouldn't have played the blame game here. But it's easy to do as a reflex.

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