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CaptYossarian

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8. If some of these girls were 11 or 13, they were too young to be in high school,

Reply to LenaBaby61 (Reply #3)

Fri Jan 24, 2020, 06:36 PM

Jan 2020

which is usually when kids learn about Madame Curie. It sounds like they never attended HS because of the Depression, so they instead worked to help the family.

The Roaring 20s had a great amount of income inequality. Guess what our future holds now?

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