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mopinko

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4. susan catania- one of my first sheroes.

Reply to NeoGreen (Original post)

Thu Jun 13, 2019, 09:48 AM

Jun 2019

i graduated high school in '72.
this is what i woke up to, politically speaking.
we had a few really great women from chi in springfield back then.
susan was one. barbara flynn currie was another, who just retired last term.

those women lifted up the women behind them, too.

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