You know you've lived a long time
when you read with incredulity that
those earning upwards and well beyond
$100,000 a year cannot make ends meet
complaining of the skyrocketing costs of
living in burgeoning metropoli and you
cast your mind back, back, back to raising
three infants on your husband's annual
salary of $2,500, in financial precarity
to pay two mortgages on a house bought
for $12,500 with a 'box' on the side for
milk deliveries, concerned over paying
the weekly account for that dairy-delivered
milk of the past. And how upscale you
felt when ten years later that second
house you acquired was $24,000 with a
single mortgage and you believed if that
salary were to leap to $5,000 a year the
future would guarantee financial security.
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