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6Early 1.
6: EARLY YEARS

(***Childhood) 
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[[strikethrough]] I don't remember much about my early life, but when I was seven in a convent, [[strikethrough]] at a [[/strikethrough]] I know that I had a naughty mind because even then, in my innocence, I was curious about the nun's relationship with priests.  Now, Why I don't know; and [[/strikethrough]]
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When I was nine I knew that someday, far far away I'd have to run away from home. And when I was sixteen I evidently threatened to go, so my mother allowed me to go to art school. And curiously enough, in all the conservatism in which I was brought up, she allowed me, in Paris, to go to the one school where they had nude models, men and women. I don't know how that happened. (2RM:4,5)

B:  When I was in Shipley school, it was three years of order, at a Quaker school in [[strikethrough]] Bernard [[/strikethrough]] Bryn Maur. I loved history. I love philosophy, but I also had to take German grammar, Algebra, Geometry. I didn't like them, so I took zeros. I wouldn't even study them and I'd come to class and take a zero.

I was in rebellion and somehow even in school, I was caught up with the idea of Nonviolence. Because I came to class, I never resisted, I just sat and sailed very sweetly. This girl just sat there smiling.

I was delighted because one day the principal of the school said to my mother, "Mrs. Wood, we would be delighted to