I've gotten a lot of positive feedback from comments about my unusual family from Ohio. So, on the eve of this immportant election, I thought I'd make a little diary about it to share with you all.
My family is solid working class. My Grandpop worked at the Hoover Vacuum Co., in Canton, Ohio, his whole life. My Pop worked right along side him until Grandpop retired, and my brother worked right alongside my Pop until he retired.
My brother lost his job there when the factory closed this year and moved to Mexico due to NAFTA. Three generations of the family worked in that place and they closed the doors without even a thank you to any of them.
As for me...I never liked factories. I went off and got too much education and found myself, somehow, in Canada.
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