         Money can indeed solve certain problems (those that are connected to its lack), but families with plenty of money can also be quite troubled and confused and hurt. Money is such a vexing matter to so many of us in a world so sensitive to both its presence and absence that it can generate its own kind of difficulties for people who may seem to have everything, but who know full well what they don't have, or yearn to have more plentifully: affection, self-respect, membership in a community of neighbors or colleagues at work, those bonds that are priceless.
- Robert Coles, author of Children of Crisis series from the foreword to The Legacy of Inherited Wealth |
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Like a Second Mother:
Nannies and Housekeepers in the Lives of Wealthy Children
C h a p t e r E i g h t
E V E L Y N D I X O N
Remembered by Missy Rowley
Evelyn was the one who named me. My official name is Lucille, after
my mother, but I have never been called that. My mother never liked
her name much, either, and she and Evelyn had seen the nickname Missy
in the newspaper. And when I got home from the hospital, Evelyn said,
"Oh, she's my little Missy, and that's who she's gonna be." So that's
who I was—and it's who I am today.
Evelyn's mother, Annie Dixon, grew up out in the country
and went to work for my grandparents when she was about sixteen. And
Evelyn came into my grandparents' house when she was thirteen to help
with the laundry. I'm sure she was doin' other stuff too—like polishing
silver and things like that.
Evelyn raised my mother, and when my mother got married,
Evelyn came with her. So she was there long before I was born. She was
born in 1903, so she was in her late forties when I was born. I'm the
next-to-youngest of six kids. I have three older sisters and one older
brother. George is the youngest.
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