Throughout~*the Depression years~1,mybrothers,sisters and I often heard our grannysay,“One of these days,my ship is comingin.”Of course Granny s ship was just a~*dream—her escape from the reality of beingpoor~2 most of her life.But to us it was veryreal.~*Our family got by with the barest of ne-cessities;there rarely was enough left over forspecial desires.~3 So if we wished for other