FLASHBACK

I never really had any worry of what clothes I wore, but I always had Betsie and Nollie to worry for me. Tante Jans liked to buy us gifts. She buys us hats very often. Tante Jans believed that our wefare in the hearafter depended on how much we could accomplish here on earth. Death she often said, was waiting to snatch her from her work and so she kept her hours of repose as brief and businesslike as possible. Mondays, Father took the train to Amsterdam to get the time from the Naval Observatory so that his watches would always have the same time. I could only go with him in the summer, now, because I have to attend school. Mama used to take baskets of food to the poor.