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Shelley Weiner – Life-changing Literature

Illustration by Fran Pulido of woman by window thinking what to write with book birds flying past window.

26 August, 2016
Shelley Weiner

While I was cocooned in white suburbia, Ruth First, like me the daughter of East European Jewish immigrants, dared to stand up. She was punished. How brutally she was punished.

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