Tuesday, September 23, 2008

If not for the drink...


If she hadn't started drinking at an early age, how would her life have been different? If her parents had been anyone else, her last name, anything other than Tabor, would she have followed her sister Lily and settled for marriage? What else was possible for a woman in 1910? A woman living on her own, trying to make her own wage, support herself, who had a few bad habits? Was it just bad luck that landed her in bad rooming houses with abusive men, in low paying jobs? Why did she give up writing? Who were her friends and how low were their expectations?

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