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S1 E2: Women’s Work

The Dream

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My Great Grandma Maxine

Ruth's parents, my great grandma maxine and her husband, leo, did have a difficult time. Her father was a successful veterinarian who doted on her when she was a very little girl. But then he left, abandoned the family, and a few years later, things got worse. So that's the kind of life that maxine had. Do you think there was anything in grandma becoming an avon lady that was like her chance to kind o like te fancy again? That's an interesting question. When i was a child, i didn't think i was suffering. But when you wear cardboard in your shoes because you got holes in the bottom to school, and your

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