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Suz Thackston's avatar

I think she sounds a proper corker! As someone with all the energy of a couch cushion, it's wonderful to read about a young woman with this degree of drive.

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Chris Deliso's avatar

great episode and well read as usual. My only vonfusion is the question of whether you are citing actual newspaper sources (when the narrative invokes it) from that time, or whether that is a fictional imagining.

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Simon Barber's avatar

Actual newspaper sources, Chris. Rev Robert pasted clips into The Margery Book. And I'm finding others on newspapers.com.

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Jerry G.'s avatar

I’m sorry to say but your great aunt seems to have been what in my younger New Jersey days we might put — in the gentler key — a real nut case.

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