“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte
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“I Am Making the World My Confessor”: Mary MacLane, the Wild Woman from Butte
Sense of all the windows and doors of her life flung open. Everything exposed to the light and air. Nothing protected, nothing left to be protected anymore. A wild woman, her mother called her. A shocking piece of work. And so she is. Lord have mercy.
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