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General Motors as a Quality Control Inspector and Guess What? Yeap! I got pregnant! The following April in 1960, Ronald Alan was born, but the tubes to his heart and lungs were interchanged and he only lived 4 hours. The doctor, who was a father of eleven children, said the best thing for me would be to get pregnant again. And for the first time I actually Tried to get pregnant. Darcy Kay was born the next year in July and Cindy Ann the year after that in July also. We went to look for a bigger apartment. The two bedroom one we were in was not that big. Finding n apartment for 4 kids and a dog was not easy. The last place we went to the man said, "You'll probably be on Welfare next year, never pay your rent and be pregnant with another kid!" I went home in tears! He Was right about One thing! I Was pregnant the next year. I found an brand new house advertised in the newspaper the next day and when Bob came home I said, "We're buying this house!" He said we didn't have the downpayment. I said, "Yes we do! I called dad and he is loaning us $500 and I think your parents will do the same." We went to the bank to get a loan and the bank vice president told us that even he couldn't afford such high payments as $150 a month and sent us away. We went to a Savings & Loan with our 10% down, paid PMI insurance and got the mortgage for the $18,000 ranch. In November of 1962 we moved into our first house. I was pregnant again and the following August our son, Randy, was born. There was some concern about some varicose veins on my leg, so I was then put on birth control pills and had a vein stripping operation. In 1965 we moved to East Northport, New York. I didn't know anyone there and thought how nice it would be to have another baby, so I stopped taking the birth control pills. Chad was born in November of 1966. The next year I got pregnant while ON the birth control pills and Skotti Kathryn was born in Feb of 1968. After that I was introduced to the IUD, which didn't work any better than the pills had. We moved back to Greendale, Wisconsin in 1969 and Karolyn Paige was born in December. Three months later I was in the Psyche Ward with what they called a 'Nervous Breakdown'. I was out of the hospital for weekends in two weeks and home for good in a month. We then moved to Goleta, California where Bob worked on the Moon Buggy Apollo project. The following May of 1971 we moved to Shelby Township, Michigan, where we lived for the next 25 years. I started working at Crittenten Hospital at the Information Desk in 1971, then left for a job at T&C Federal Credit Union as a Loan Officer and then
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