In this personal memoir, the author shares engaging stories
about being a latch-key kid growing up in the American
Midwest during the 1930s and '40s. Her father, 'shellshocked'
in World War I, had a dramatic impact on the
family. Her mother, as a single parent, raised her through
the hardships of the Great Depression. Janet grows from a
lonely child to a twenty-year old mother, and blossoms into
a complex woman who has uncommon experiences with
family, friends, work, travel, health, and her sixty-fi ve years
of marriage to one man.