"Poverty made me feel weak, as if I were coming down with an awful, debilitating, communicable disease - the disease of being without money. Instead of going to the hospital, you went to the poor farm. The difference was, you never got well at the poor farm."

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Source : Faith Sullivan (2011). “The Cape Ann: A Novel”, p.136, Broadway Books

Faith Sullivan

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