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Madge May: "Well, first you have to cut their heads off. Then, in those days you had to heat your water to boiling, put it in a bucket and dunk the chickens up and down to get the feathers scalded off and pull them off. They probably had been already singed there, and I was getting ready to dismember them."
     "It was difficult at that time, and I think that we think we wouldn't want our children to go through it [the Depression]. But I can see great value in it because I'm sure we have a much greater appreciation for even small things than people do today."
     Bob Aden: "One Sunday afternoon, we were sitting studying, and they broke in on the radio and said that Pearl Harbor had been bombed. So we knew that everything in the past had been prologue. That was the beginning of a whole new turn of events."

Madge May & Bob Aden

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