What we called home was a 8 by 48 foot mobile home....There was 5 of us that lived in this mobile home....We did not have running water.....Yes we had a sink,a bath tub,shower and toilet,but no running water......There was a storage tank that sit in the way of the back door,that would hold water pumped from the well....The tank had a hose hooked to it,and we would use that to flush our toilet,and fill the bath tub.....Yes we took cold baths in the summer time,and in the winter my gran ma would let us take baths at her house......Gran ma only lived about 50 yards from us,,,,and I thank God for that....When the wind blew hard enough the walls would shake,,,and even snow would blow up under my bed....It was very cold , all we had was this little round black heater that took kerosene...It kept us from freezing to death but that was about it......I remember when i was in 5th. grade that thing smoked every thing up in the house.....My mom woke my oldest brother and I up to get ready for school and she yelled, "come on boys get up the house is black....Why it never killed us was because of all the air leaks in the walls....I mean these walls was so bad you could of shook them and the entire place would of hit the ground......But we had a roof over our head is what my dad always said.....All of us was so black it looked as if we just came out of the coal mine and rubbed coal dust all over us,it was very bad....This didn't just happin one time but several...The picture above is not it...But it is the same size and make but in a lot and I mean a lot better shape....
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