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Article: Hardworking Parents Are Worthy of Note
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- April 8, 1994
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A A letter from Rose Auslander appeared last week in the far bottom
corner of the big, gray New York Times editorial page.
It was a little blurb, just 2 1/2 inches long, and it seemed
insignificant next to the big important letters from such influential
citizens as the U.S. secretary of defense.
Rose Auslander, in fact, was the only letter-writer that day
whose name did not appear over a title. Under her name, it just
said: "Brooklyn."
She wrote:
"I wanted to thank each of the many men and women who gave me a
seat on the subway on my way to and from work when I was pregnant
during the heat wave last summer, and when I commuted carrying my
infant daughter to the day-care center at my ...