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Marian Mathews Clark writes, “I grew up in Mist, Oregon, where I was a stay-put strawberry picker. Through the years, I’ve worked as a counselor, a teacher, and am currently an academic advisor at the University of Iowa. And I have found no job more difficult than picking strawberries.”
You can do your studies on us migratory types all you want. My sister Rose came home from school last year saying that’s what you stay-puts call us. I told her you’re probably the same guys yelling White trash bastards go home when we drive through Salem. She says, no, you wouldn’t yell at us.
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