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    • January 28, 2024 at 8:01 pm #2047
      Kris Ingra
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        While I knew about Nelly Bly and her reporting after the asylum commitment, I had never heard of her trip around the world. True, it was a publicity stunt to which she agreed, but did you not get the impression that she was just a novelty, a pawn, to the powerful men in charge?

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