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 | | She later reflected that two experiences of that move shaped her within: being gripped with a passion for that "shaggy grass country" that was "the happiness and the curse of my life" (1921: WCIP, 32), and visiting immigrant neighbors, particularly the old women who told her stories of the home country. |
 | | He met Roy Stryker, head of the famous Farm Security Administration photography unit, but was seen as not having an appropriate Depression-era social conscience -- declining, for example, to document suffering people or the social conditions of poverty. |
 | | She's spent most of her life explaining its origin, and being the daughter of a much traveled serviceman, she's had to do that all over the world. |
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