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Betty Shoemaker

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I’ve never been traditional in the way I live. I’ve always been sort of on the edge, in a certain sense of the word. So when people say ‘Oh yeah, I know how you must feel …’, I tell them ‘you know what it was like to be 30, ‘cause you’ve been 30 before. But you don’t know what it’s like to be 82.’

Herstory description:
  Subject: Betty Shoemaker
  Date of Birth: 1919
  Place of Birth: New Jersey
  Age at Interview: 83
  Death: 2002
  Date of Interview: January 2001
  Interviewer: Arden Eversmeyer
  Place of Interview: Santa Barbara, CA
  Transcriber: Maryellen Lex
  Length of Transcript: original, 50 pages; OCR text, 44 pages;
​    ~ 12,400 word;  lots of blanks throughout the transcript
  Contract: Unconditional; contract with OLOC
  Contract Dated: 01/08/2001
  Support documents: 19 pages; copies of photos, certificates, emails, poems

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