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Book Review of The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio: How My Mother Raised 10 Kids on 25 Words or Less
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This is the story of a mother of 10 children and the wife of an alcoholic husband who won contestmoney and prizes to keep her family clothed and fed in an era when women didn't work outside the home. It is a story of one woman's desperate fight to keep her family out of poverty and full of humor and the postive attitude that made life bearable for her children.