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It's a cliche to say we didn't have much, but we really didn't. We had family and we had the outdoors. It was a good way to start life. We had the stuff that matters. I think that connection to nature is a part of me and I'm grateful for it.

Here we say "it was better when it was worse", back then we had less and it's said it was worse than now, but it seems it was better back then