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β¦all you can think about is Clara Barton, the feminist icon of your youth who had to teach herself how to be a nurse and endured abuse from men telling her what to do at every turn, and you remember being so *angry* and running to your parents and asking them if women still got told what was right or proper, and your mom said βYesβ and your dad said βNo,β and you, for the first time, had an inkling of how complicated and terrible the world wasβ¦
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