📍Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States
“I raised my boys in the small towns and worn-out neighbourhoods of Missouri and Oklahoma — Tulsa among them. We moved more times than I can count, always looking for somewhere quieter, somewhere cheaper, somewhere the boys could stay out of trouble. Home was wherever the family gathered, and family was the only thing that ever mattered to me. People later wrote all manner of things about me, but they were not there in those cramped little houses, making meals out of nothing, keeping four restless boys from falling apart. I cooked, I cleaned, and I kept us together.”
👍 LovedThe smell of a proper Sunday breakfast, jigsaw puzzles spread across the kitchen table, gospel music through the radio, and the rare evenings when all four of my boys were home at once.
👎 DislikedPoverty, judgement from people who had never gone without, newspapers that printed anything that sold copies, and the bitter Missouri cold that crept under every door.
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Sources: historynet.com Wikipedia: Ma Barker