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“The only place where success comes before work is the dictionary” - Coach Vince Lombardi. Tomorrow, the nation celebrates Labor Day, and since it is a federal holiday, many laborers get the day off ― with pay. My mother ― who lived to be 101 ― grew up during the Great Depression of the 1930s. She wrote about it in a memoir called Armchair Memories. Here is an excerpt about her “laboring” in the spud harvest in southern Idaho: “As soon as we were old enough and strong enough, we would have to help in the harvesting of the potato...