#then moved back in with her grandmother and got a shopkeeping job till she saved enough money for a one way ticket to europe
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every time i speak to my parents and grandparents i learn new buckwild pieces of family lore
#there's secret children (multiple) there's murders (multiple) there's truly wild lives lived by both my grandmothers#one lived as a boy for 5 years in her tweens/teens#the other left home at 16 with no plan and no money to go be an actress in nyc. actually managed it for 5 years#then moved back in with her grandmother and got a shopkeeping job till she saved enough money for a one way ticket to europe#where she just showed up again with no plan and no money and just bounced around getting taken in by random strangers#as she wandered across the continent#insane decisions to make as a young jewish woman alone in europe in the 1960s with not much safety net from a background of little money#eventually she moved back home and became a professional hypnotist#an e original
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