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Failure in Ochota
father’s family who always hated us now had their revenge, and I felt
like a stranger now amongst those villagers. We lived there as in a
prehistoric village, no newspapers, no schools, no books, no
transportation, but plenty of superstition, fairy tales, and ignorance.
The menfolk learned at least to read the prayer book, and some
uplifted themselves by their own efforts and learned to understand
what they read, but the female population was brought up without
knowing how to write or read—not even the prayer book.
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