A simple story of a simple woman in a complicated situation.
Mary Nell Mary Nell left home at age 16 in 1892 to work at the Hotel General Forest in Rome, GA, three years before Annie was even born. She met gentlemen and ladies who lived elegant lives so different from the ways she knew, and lived in small room at the top of the hotel. She even ate three meals a day in the employer’s basement. She had grown plump and independent and proud of her figure molded by corsets. She was the fortunate one.
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