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Podcast: I Woke Up This Gay
Episode: 42. That Crazy Foreign Woman
Description: When the Mormons in Utah saw the way my Russian Mother was raising me they rolled their eyes and called her "That Crazy Foreign Woman." Mum was always the smartest, best educated, best looking and by far the best dressed person in every room. She looked like Ava Gardener with curly black hair and stunning blue eyes. Women hated her and men were terrified of her. Everyone from our cousin the governor on down knew her well enough to admire and fear her.For a woman in misogynistic Mormondom, in the 1950s, 60s and 70s, my mum...