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But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family.

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Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now – yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.
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I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.
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Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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