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TIL when novelist Shirley Jackson, author of the short story “The Lottery”, was checked into the hospital in 1948 to deliver her 3rd child, the clerk asked her to state her occupation. “Writer”, she replied. The clerk responded, “I’ll just put down housewife.”

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