5/9/2023 0 Comments Live alone and like it pdf![]() Tens of thousands of women were doing it. The idea of a woman moving on her own wasn’t really that shocking anymore. Instead, she would pack up everything she owned and head directly to the city. She was in her mid-thirties, a successful editor at Vogue, a former flapper who frequented the best cocktail bars in Manhattan. Though her brother and his children lived nearby, she refused to be “an old maid aunt,” haunting the periphery of the family. Hillis had just returned from Venezuela, where she’d had an epiphany. But her parents were dead, and her sister had recently remarried. ![]() It was the home where she had lived with her family. In 1930, Marjorie Hillis stood in front of a large, empty house in suburban New York. (Esther Bubley/FSA via Library of Congress) ![]() Girl sitting alone at the Sea Grill in Washington, D.C., 1943. ![]()
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