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We Move to a New Home

The following is an excerpt from We Were not Spoiled by Lucille Ledoux as told to Denis Ledoux. My parents must have had little hope of ever putting aside enough money for a down payment to buy a house of their own. We were still in the three-bedroom apartment on Shawmut Street when Gertrude was born on March 5, 1925. She was thirteen-and-a-half months younger than Marcel. I was three and a half at the time, and Robert was two. My parents, who had been married only four and half years, now had a house full of kids, but two

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