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Lunabell

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1. I was 13 when I had my first paycheck job.

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Fri Mar 17, 2023, 04:32 AM

Mar 2023

And it should never have happened! I looked after little chldren, no more than a child myself, at a Montessori school after school program in 1974. Toddlers, some still in diapers and I was 13. What 13 year old is capable of looking after 5-6 children? Nope. Nope. Nope.

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