"Your heart often knows things before your mind does, and I think from this time on, psychologically speaking, I was already retired from the business I had been in so long."
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Ch. 10, sec. 3, p. 348
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Polly Adler
Pearl "Polly" Adler (April 16, 1900 – June 9, 1962) was an American madam and author, best known for her work A House Is Not a Home, which was adapted into a film of the same name.
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