Letter to the Later Generation

Dear Khadija Allen,
I am surprised to hear from you. Your generation now days have it made. The technology such as the computer, cell phones, and the emails keep you people updated a lot. I would have never thought that you would have written me a letter, but I am thrilled you did. You people have high fashion, luxury cars, and other costly items that only my social security can get me so much of.
You ask me to describe how life was for me in the early 20th century. I say much different than it is now. Let us just say people. Especially women, have a lot more freedom than they did during my time. Women were not allowed to vote or hold legit job. We were treated like slaves and we had jobs like to care of our children, hold risky jobs such as police officers and even being a nurse to the soldiers in the wars. While men were getting most of the attention, we were just being put aside.
Transportation for us was just opening to expand. New fixtures such as bridges and automobiles were all put into effect. The automobile vastly increased the mobility of people in the Western countries in the early to mid-century and in many other places by the end of the century. City design throughout most of the West became focused on transport via car. New inventions began to make a move on us and everything made life much easier. When Henry Ford invented the Ford Model T, everyone just had to get there hands on one of them. The Model T set 1908 as the historic year that the automobile came into popular usage. People were saying that it is generally regarded as the first affordable automobile, the car that "put America on wheels”. Early on, it was this marvelous, extravagant bridge created right after my mother’s birthday. It was the famous Brooklyn Bridge. It was made for people who wanted to get to Manhattan from Brooklyn or vice versa, a lot quicker and easier. Later the Wright Brothers made a superb invention that can get you from place to place in mid air. It is what’s known as the airplane. The brothers made their first successful flight in 1903. Everyone was proud and wanted to try for him or herself.
There is a lot more that I wish I can tell you but then you would not learn some of these events on your own in school or even reading a book. I am so glad to hear from you and I hope you write to me soon.
Sincerely,
Marilyn Doogood