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Photograph of Arnette Adams
I met Arnette at Mary’s Place in the summer of 2006, and she readily agreed to be interviewed. I interviewed her twice that year, and once again in 2008. Fifty-nine when we first met, Arnette is a striking woman, close to six feet tall, with short graying hair. She has a commanding physical presence, and when I first encountered her, I would never have guessed that she had been in anything but perfect health her entire life. Her sometimes stammering speech and the way she shakes her head in a mix of frustration and amusement as she searches for a familiar word were the only clues that Arnette had suffered a stroke in 1987.
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© 2011 Desiree Hellegers
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Hellegers, D. (2011). Arnette Adams. In: No Room of Her Own. Palgrave Studies in Oral History. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230339200_15
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