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    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Florence_Owens_Thompson&wprov=rarw1

    Florence Owens Thompson (born Florence Leona Christie; September 1, 1903 – September 16, 1983) was an American woman who was the subject of Dorothea Lange’s photograph Migrant Mother (1936), considered an iconic image of the Great Depression. The Library of Congress titled the image: “Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children. Age thirty-two. Nipomo, California.” Thompson was called the "Mona Lisa of the 1930s.

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      It is wild she’s only 32 in that picture, but then again even without the great depression, 7 kids will do that to ya.