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other words, her life had been absolutely clear. Of course, she didn't marry and didn't have any diversions.
However, Mrs. Moskowitz was in a different position. She hadn't aspired to a career. Neither had I. Everything that happened to me was purely accidental.
Women who didn't have families, like Florence Allen, who became a judge in the Federal Court and is an extremely able woman, were something different. Florence Allen had a mixed life, a very varied life. She was a very brilliant woman. I don't think she started out with the ambition to be a Judge of the Appellate Courts. She was unmarried. She started out to be a musician. She was beautifully educated in music. Her family were rich and amply able to promote her musical ambition. She desired to be a concert pianist. She went abroad to study. She had everything. She came back and for some reason or other her mind had ceased to be fully occupied with music. I never have known where she made the transition. I seem to remember her telling me once that somebody in her family got involved in the tangles of the law. As she tried to help her and as the family tried to help her, the logic of the law and the whole system of law became interesting to Miss Allen. By the time she was prepared to be a concert pianist she decided that she didn't want to be a concert pianist, that there was
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