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Bee Stung Butts, Freeze Dried Diapers and Other Hilarious Happenings of Poverty

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Dad grew up on his parent’s farm with a wood stove, an outhouse and kerosene lamps. In the morning, you raced into the living room to warm first your backside and then your front-side by the stove. We had a coal stove at home, but my brother and my shared bedroom was just a few feet from the stove. My Mom grew up in St.

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