On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 04:18:53PM -0500, Karen Thomas wrote: > >>>> yes. especially since there was purposeful culling, i can't imagine it > was done randomly. > > You've never lived on a poor people's farm, in harsh economic times, have > you? You've always lived in suburbia, in affluence?
actually, i was born and spent the first chunk of my childhood in the bronx, which is full of poor people, but doesn't remotely resemble a farm. then we moved to a semi-rural area, where my mom and her two partners covered pathology for five small hospitals. (well, we got a house out there, where i did my first pony-keeping, in my backyard. my grandma continued to live in our old apartment, my dad stayed there on nights he worked late, and i considered the bronx "home" as well until my grandmother died). after my pony's death, i needed a major escape, and i moved to baltimore (charles village, a pleasant place but very, very urban and not affluent) and went to college. (yes, i began college at fourteen.) i presently live in somerville, one of the most densely populated towns in the usa, which i would also call "urban" rather than "suburban". (my back yard is about 15'x20'.) i swear, i am subject to more nosy questions than anyone else on this list appears to be. wtf does this have to do with icelandics? --vicka
