Her's was when she was 12.
It was the depression, they were all stuffed into that tenement on Henry Street, and school was a thing of the past because only her brothers, my father and my uncle, got to go on to the next grade.
So a relative who had some connections nobody talked about (and maybe still shouldn't) got her a job taking bets at the Armstrong News which was a racing sheet.
She got fired because she talked too much.
At her next job, age 13, she got a job at one of the Settlement Houses and went on to changed the world.
