Tired cry, As born, And jollity, And forsworn, And misplac'd, And strumpeted, And disgrac'd, And disabled And authority, And skill, And simplicity, And ill: Tir'd gone, Save alone.
In the waning years of WW II, we were living in Rockville Center, Long Island, I was about 12 and dad was dying of a brain tumor. Mom said NYC was no place for a widow to bring up a child, so she packed us up and we took a train to her childhood home in Detroit Lakes Minnesota. That's where she met and married this widower. He was a clothing salesman and outdoorsman.