Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
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You are Maggie Johnson, growing up in Rum Alley between a brother who turns every beating into a legend and a mother who drinks through the furniture. Pete, the tough who once pulled Jimmie out of a six-against-one fight, starts calling at the tenement in polished shoes, describing saloons and shows far past your collar-factory wages. When he finally asks you to a music hall Friday night, your mother wakes among the wreckage and warns the door will not open kindly again if you take it.
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