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Eighteen Lives At Home Now

One question for you How do children live today? Renting a room is costly. In the seventies Eighteen could rent a full house For a hundred bucks a month This could possibly Today pay for candy bars In our expensive world Eighteen lives at home With his parents and siblings As does twenty-eight Sometimes thirty-eight It is so expensive now To be a grown up

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Date: 11/10/2019 12:39:00 PM
---Though in the long run, perhaps we can suggest that it's more expensive NOT to have (many) children! Your poem has sparked both this comment and its concomitant questionku! See 'The New Math," which I will post shortly. Smiles, Gershon
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