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Girls took to dressing like boys, and though women had obtained the vote, we had swiftly moved on to pursuing flashier freedoms: necking in cars and smoking cigarettes and walking down city streets in flesh colored stockings.

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Anna Godbersen
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: April 10
Writer
Berkeley
California
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