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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fast food and KFC was a treat -once or twice a year.

No public meltdowns. Ever.[/quote]

I feel fortunate to have escaped much of what's being discussed here, but "no public meltdowns" is huge. I sometimes wonder whether I'm exaggerating when I look at parents today, even very good ones, and say my family never had those problems. Of course, that brings up the whole issue of corporal punishment then (lots!) and now (none!) ...

And, yes, there was much less eating out, and when it happened, it was at cheap places. My first long-term GF, upper middle class to my middle-to-lower middle class, was unattractively horrified when the first dinner my parents invited her to was at the Spaghetti Factory.

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Replying to myself here, but as I read further I have to add:

I was forced to quit high school sports and "get a job." Worked full time my senior year, eight hours after classes, five days a week. And not a cent for college, though I did get scholarships.

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