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Even when I was a grown woman, he [Father] would leave me on the edge of hysteria in all our arguments: though I married and lived as far as I could spiritually from Bridgeport, he reduced me in a matter of hours to a wriggling child, pleading to go free.

Maureen Howard

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Maureen Howard
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: June 28
Autobiographer
Novelist
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Bridgeport
Connecticut
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Married
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