Use always and never with the past tense

[anhnha]

Their mother Mrs. Wang remembers, "People always pointed at my children and other kids made fun of them and hated them just because they were deaf. They were so embarrassed that they cried. It always broke my heart – and there was never anything I could to do change things!"
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Is it possible to use the past tense with always or never?

[Gillnetter]

Their mother Mrs. Wang remembers, "People always pointed at my children and other kids made fun of them and hated them just because they were deaf. They were so embarrassed that they cried. It always broke my heart – and there was never anything I could to do change things!"
More:Two Deaf Children and an Impossible Choice < Outreach | CBN.com
Is it possible to use the past tense with always?

Yes, I always walked to school when we lived in the city. Why do you think it cannot be used in the past?

[anhnha]

Yes, I always walked to school when we lived in the city. Why do you think it cannot be used in the past?

Thank you,
It is because I thought that always mean at all times not a period of time such as when I was a child, when we lived in the city...

[emsr2d2]

No, it means all the time or all the time during a specified period.

I always got the bus to school as a child but now I always drive to work.
I never walked to school as a child. Now I always work to work.