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“I went to university, even though my father wouldn’t let me go to school.”

“Why wouldn’t he let you go to school?”

“I was a girl; I had to get married. When I came to Canada from Israel, he wouldn’t let me go to school. He got me a job at a panty factory. I walked in there, walked out, and said: ‘you know what—take a gun and kill me, ‘cause I’m not working there!’ I was here for one week. I went to the Gazette, the Montreal Star at the time, I looked for a job, and found a job at an office—I faked myself in—as a filing clerk. I went to high school, well, I finished high school in Israel. Then I went to CEGEP afterwards. I was married already, at eighteen. My first son was born on my nineteenth birthday! I went back to university when the kids were sixteen, and finished my Bachelor of Arts.”

“What did your father have to say about that?”

“He said it was stupid that I had to go. I said, ‘if I don’t go, I’d be stupid.’”

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