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I was such a greenhorn, you wouldn't believe. My first day in
America I went with my aunt to buy some American clothes. She
bought me a shirtwaist, you know, a blouse and a skirt, a blue
print with red buttons and a hat, such a hat I had never seen.
I took my old brown dress and shawl and threw them away! I know
it sounds foolish, we being so poor, but I didn't care. I had
enough of the old country. When I looked in the mirror, I couldn't
get over it. I said, boy, Sophie, look at you now. Just like an
American.
Sophie
Abrams quoted in Elizabeth Ewen, Immigrant Women in the Land of
Dollars, 68
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