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calimary

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14. I have always resented that label "housewife."

Reply to CaptYossarian (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 12, 2020, 03:26 PM

Aug 2020

ALWAYS. Even in elementary school I didn't like it. Thought it was demeaning. Resolved I would NEVER be one, even if I ever got married.

And that's long before I ever woke up to the women's movement.

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