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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 1420096" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="color: #006666">Pennies For Candles........</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: #006666"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: #006666"> When I was a child, during the Great Depression, my mother sent me to the store to buy candles because our electricity had been turned off.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: #006666"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: #006666"> I gave the clerk in the store my pennies for the candles, and he sarcastically said, "Didn't pay the electric bill ?"</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: #006666"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: #006666"> I held my head up high and replied, "Of course we did, but we want to have dinner by candlelight tonight."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: #006666"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: #006666"> I still laugh when I recall our 'candlelight' dinner and the look on the clerk's face after my retort. We didn't have much money, but we had pride.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: #006666"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS'"><span style="color: #006666">Jean Smidt, West Milford, N.J.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 1420096, member: 1246"] [FONT=Trebuchet MS][SIZE=4][COLOR=#006666]Pennies For Candles........[/COLOR][/SIZE] [COLOR=#006666] When I was a child, during the Great Depression, my mother sent me to the store to buy candles because our electricity had been turned off. I gave the clerk in the store my pennies for the candles, and he sarcastically said, "Didn't pay the electric bill ?" I held my head up high and replied, "Of course we did, but we want to have dinner by candlelight tonight." I still laugh when I recall our 'candlelight' dinner and the look on the clerk's face after my retort. We didn't have much money, but we had pride. Jean Smidt, West Milford, N.J.[/COLOR][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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