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This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this...
This could be a whole life," she thought. "You work eight hours a day covering wires to earn money to buy food and to pay for a place to sleep so that you can keep living to come back to cover more wires. Some people are born and kept living just to come to this...
Approximate author period: c. 1934 AD · modern
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- Betty Smith
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- Approximate author period: c. 1934 AD · modern
Approximate period for the recorded attribution to Betty Smith, based on documented lifetime 1896 to 1972. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q273730 (checked 2026-10-08). This is not a quotation composition date or independent authentication of its attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q273730 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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