By: Cassie S
Maryland, Grade: 3

This is a list of ten ways the depression has changed my life:
1. Everybody is depressed and melancholy and nobody wants to play with me or joke around.
2.Everybody has less money to spend. I was kept keeping my fathers shop for seven hours and only two people came to buy!
3. Since my family runs a buisiness, that means that we will get less money because not enough people are buying our things!
4. Mother made me sell some of my toys. She said I didn't need them, but I really liked some of them.
5. All anyone can think about is the great depression and it is contagious! Now I am sad all the time and You can almost smell the misery in the air.

I can't wait until this is over!