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That was what she remembered best, that was what kept her sane after, when life as a coal miner's daughter revealed itself to her, unfolded upon her, strangled her. directories Of course, grandfather was long gone then, squeezed in a small disaster, a blasting mistake, a shoring poorly done, a section collapsed; unremarkable among a similar dozen accidents in the valley that year. Five others were squeezed with him in the cold and wet and impenetrably dark bowels of the valley, sent to heaven directly from hell with a subtle incense of blasting powder smoke, coal dust, oil, and earth, on that cold and wet and impenetrably dark day. There was no workmen's compensation, no disability insurance, no life insurance, no social security, no survivors benefits; the mine would not even pay to bury him, that was the union's job.

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He died leaving a pregnant wife, three children, Evelyn's father the eldest. Forfecuta unghii profesionala on link page Thus her father, led a life fractionally less hard than his father; had instead of a third grade education a fifth grade education; had only to work sixty hours instead of seventytwo each week. directories on Top page And yet still he came away with little or no money, his pay owed to the company store, docked away before he saw it, and any left went over to drink, to the only escape from this life of dark drudgery, this life in hell.

directories This was the calculus of a coal miner's life, for inside a man the hard lumps of anthracite would remain unbroken, exacting instead an inevitable, internal toll. And yet, life goes on and much of the beauty of math is how unexpectedly elegant results will now and then issue from static equations. directories Evelyn grew, surpassing her mother in beauty and intelligence and ambition, none of which was any advantage in this coalsodden valley. Finally she married beneath her ambitions little choice she had another grandson of Ireland, another progeny of the coal fields, Thaddeus Holmes, a man of demeanor equally meek to her father's example, accepting his fate as passive mate to an unhappy, sharptongued, religiously obsessed wife. Well, she was pretty, and she bore pretty children, five of them before he too was squeezed, two limbs lost to machinery and death from shock and blood loss and infection a few days after. discounts The mines had become a fractionally safer place by then. But not safe enough. But at least once he was gone there was no reason to stay in this narrow valley, this Iron Maiden, this filthy place.