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Date: 2013-12-18 03:43 pm (UTC)You don't see very much of it anymore, but in the 1960s -- I am guessing wildly at the date of the painting from the salt shakers -- you'd be looking at people who started life when about a third of the population was employed in agriculture, so it's quite possible said matriarch has lived a life that involved picking rocks out of fields when she was six.