“When I Was (Am) 20” was an interesting assignment because it showed how despite being portrayed as out of touch with reality, stodgy, and fixed in their ways, some seniors recognize the world is very different than when they were twenty and the one I spoke to encouraged me to finish out my education. The lady I spoke with (Donna, I believe), was a 74 year old woman, who recently retired from being a typist and administrative assistant and now volunteered at her church which she deeply loved. She is passionate about her faith and sharing it with us, with frequent reminders that “we are all children of God” and “we came from a place of love”. She was rather sweet with her desire to share the gospel with others, if not a little overbearing at times, but she did have the where-with-all to acknowledge that. At twenty, she said her brother moved her out to California and made her go to school, where she became an administrative assistant, and also a mother and wife. She encouraged us, that times were different now and it was good that we were in college, because we now can’t depend on being homemakers and having a husband that can pay all the bills -- “it’s expensive to live here now anyways”. She was, like many women (especially of her generation), very passionate about keeping as much of her family in contact, and she wore a bracelet with charms attached with every cousin’s birth date, dating back to 1883.
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June 2019
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