My grandmother Jarvis was an Abraham Lincoln Republican. She could never be convinced that times had changed and so had the Grand Old Party.
Grandma had worked hard all of her life and was proud of her contributions. But she was born in 1874 and by the time social security came around she was never covered. She lived her retirement years receiving an Old Age Pension. It was a disgustingly pitiful dribble of money and my dad and his sister constantly slid her money under the table, since any monetary gift was to be deducted from her monthly stipend. But Grandma voted for Hoover and Wilke and Dewey. She always voted against social legislation, but she lived in subsidized housing with her heat and electricity furnished by the tax payers.
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