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Author Herbert Wolff describes the genesis of this collection of personal works in his introduction:

"My brother and I had a mother and a father…but we never had parents. We were products of the 1930s economic depression, and as such were bundled and delivered to the care of grandparents. And for those dear folks, it was easier to shift the obligation of parenthood to people and places that were paid to supervise unattached children."

The brothers lived where they were sent: sometime to inst...