"I myself did not want to leave the shop for fear of losing a day or even more perhaps in finding other work. To lose half a dollar meant that it would take so much longer before mother and the children would come. And now I wanted them more than ever before. I longed for my mother and a home where it would be light and warm and she would be waiting when we came from work. Because I longed for them so I lived much in imagination. For so I could have them near me. Often as the hour for going home drew near I would sit stitching and making believe that mother and the children were home waiting."
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Rose Gollup Cohen
1880 – 1925
Rose Gollup Cohen (1880–1925) was a writer. She grew up in a Jewish family in a village in the Russian Empire, immigrated to New York City's Lower East Side with her aunt Masha in 1892 to join her father. She worked in a garment sweatshop, joined a union, and also worked as a domestic servant.
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