What Does Kindness Really Consist Of?

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I grew up in the 70s, in what I think of as a working-poor household. Maybe this is what some describe as lower middle class, but what I mean by it is this: my parents had steady jobs and worked at them diligently, we were always housed and fed, we had a working car, but we didn’t have a lot of extras. We had the clothes and shoes we needed, but not a closet full of extra things. Our vacations were road trips, once or twice…