The Rise of the Runaway Chain

In 1932 two girls named Ruth and Marie ran away from cottage 12 in Hudson, New York. They were both daughters of Italian immigrants who had been forced into prostitution. Researchers watched the girls talking in paris while doing laundry study them as they made rugs together Morano and jennings collected 10 000 pages of data Watching the girls interact and beginning to sort it into maps and charts And that's when the runaway chain began.