What is most precious Mother's Day gift of all?(Opinion)(Letter to the editor) From: The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY) | Date: May 11, 2008 | COPYRIGHT 2008 All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of The Herald Co. by the Gale Group, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

To the Editor:

In the years following World War II, our family of six lived in a three-room, third-floor Bronx apartment. We had no garden, but I often spent time watching my grandfather, the apartment building caretaker, cut the hedges around the building.

At the age of 11, my spending money came from my returning deposit bottles to grocery stores, or "fishing" for lost coins in sidewalk grates with gum on the end of a stick.

A few weeks before Mo...

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