Mother’s 1930s

Helplessly watching
her father dying by inches
and the farm blowing away
medical bill by dust storm

We always thought her fearful
we never thought to ask
Photo attribution: John Steinbeck

Mother on right, with her mother and sister Jean circa 1935

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