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A Woman to Know: "Grandma" Emma Gatewood

A Woman to Know: "Grandma" Emma Gatewood

I would never have started this trip if I had known how tough it was, but I couldn’t, and wouldn’t quit. — Emma Gatewood

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I would never have started this trip if I had known how tough it was, but I couldn’t, and wouldn’t quit. — Emma Gatewood

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In 1955, Emma Gatewood told her children she was going for a walk. She’d endured decades of domestic abuse and by the time she was in her 60s — mother to 11 children and a grandmother to 23  — she had rece…

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