I don’t really remember being poor enough to only have one TV
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I don’t really remember being poor enough to only have one TV—we got two eventually. In the summer of 2001, Dad and I watched the NBA Finals on separate ones. I watched the game through tear-filled eyes. Though I don’t really remember my very young childhood very well either, so I guess it’s not a surprise that I don’t remember much about TVs. I have memories of Dad managing a McDonalds’ restaurant in the Lehigh Valley. I didn’t know that it was a less-than-desirable job for a Doctor of Medicine. I guess our poverty just seemed normal, and two TVs seemed excessive to me. Just like wearing a T-shirts indoors during winter—it seemed like the wrong thing to do, never mind a wasteful thing to do. I remember being surprised my friend answered the door in just his T-shirt on January. I remember wearing the same outfit to school for the second day in a row and wondering about those popular and cool kids that had the audacity to wear a different one everyday.
I don’t really remember being poor enough to only have one TV
I don’t really remember being poor enough to…
I don’t really remember being poor enough to only have one TV
I don’t really remember being poor enough to only have one TV—we got two eventually. In the summer of 2001, Dad and I watched the NBA Finals on separate ones. I watched the game through tear-filled eyes. Though I don’t really remember my very young childhood very well either, so I guess it’s not a surprise that I don’t remember much about TVs. I have memories of Dad managing a McDonalds’ restaurant in the Lehigh Valley. I didn’t know that it was a less-than-desirable job for a Doctor of Medicine. I guess our poverty just seemed normal, and two TVs seemed excessive to me. Just like wearing a T-shirts indoors during winter—it seemed like the wrong thing to do, never mind a wasteful thing to do. I remember being surprised my friend answered the door in just his T-shirt on January. I remember wearing the same outfit to school for the second day in a row and wondering about those popular and cool kids that had the audacity to wear a different one everyday.