“In her whole life Mom never earned more than five or six dollars a week. Being without a husband, it was hard for her to find any place at all for us to live.”
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We show girls were forced to live in whorehouses in each town, no other accommodations being available.
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I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.
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I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own.
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