When May was a young girl growing up in rural N.C. the times were very hard,America was in a state of depression the year was 1936 . May's mother and father were very strict with their children and they had chores and rules for all the kids to follow, May had one sister her name was Angie and two brothers Tommy and Jessy. There were times when food was scarce and some nights the kids did not have much food on the table,they would have a bowl of soup and corn-bread that's it. At least the children had each other they would run and play and have lots of fun they would even make their own toys,the kids each did their choirs before going too school in the mornings and again in the evening before doing their homework.
After homework it was time to have dinner and get ready for bed. May dreamed of the day when she could get away from the farm and have a good normal life. The farm life was taking its
tole on the young children at night's they would talk among themselves and dream of the day when they would like to go off too college and make a new life for themselves.
One evening after school the children decided to go down by the river behind the house and play
their father got very upset and started screening and yelling at the children. too be continued,, ,
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