Huckleberry Hound’s lazy drawl drifted into my kitchen that Saturday morning in the fall of 1959. His antics would keep my two young children occupied while I cooked some oatmeal for breakfast. The television was a poor babysitter, but what other option did I have?
My husband had left us. We got no support from him, financial or otherwise. We’d lost everything we owned in a fire and had to start over from scratch. There wasn’t much assistance for single mothers back then, so the free entertainment the television offered was a big help.
I opened the cupboard to see what I could make for dinner later. Not much. Some nights I felt like I was trying to conjure a meal out of nothing. I cooked little more than beans, spaghetti, macaroni and tuna casserole.
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