She was a child of the 19 thirties, when the grand experiment that was america suddenly turned bleak. My father was just devastated. His medical practice suffered. Patients stopped paying. I know he was selling licker prescriptions to the druggist across the street. He and his friend harry silver would fight the revolution in our living room. But i realized fairly recently, in looking back, that those two guys were doing that for my benefit,. because they knew there was one person in that room who was listening, and that was me.