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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Lulululu, post: 42086, member: 431&quot;]What a heart breaking story! Did your grandparents use newspapers on the wall too? It helped a lot. In grade school, I lived on a former Southern plantation that had all it&#039;s outbuildings The field slave quarters, which had also been share croppers housing, was insulated with many layers of newspaper. I used to love to go down there and read the old ( 1930&#039;s) newspapers, and marvel at the ingenuity. As an artist, I have always been drawn to working with limitations, and I do challenges with it when I teach, too. I&#039;m sure that drive was born from my admiration and reverence for what people like the sharecroppers who had once lived on our land and your grandparents did with next to nothing. I&#039;ve always viewed it as a manifestation of optimism, so your characterization of your grandparents sounds right.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The house I was born in had a bay window and even though we moved when I was 4, I have very happy memories of that window. I&#039;m the bald one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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