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It Has Been A Rough Year

I am adding this additional chapter to my introduction, because after I initially wrote the introduction, it was very difficult to come back to it and try to make sense of all that I have experienced through the various stages of my life and the trials that I have endured or overcome.  I wish ...

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The Birth of Charles Leonard Wiggins

The story has already been written for awhile on my blog "From the heart of Praise, Prayer and Perseverance. 0; Here is a link to that posting, Below are the pictures of the blessed event.   http://fromthehea rt-dotwigg.blogsp ot.com/2008/03/an other-2-prayer-re quest-answered.ht ml

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Sonia Fuentes

1928 Sarasota, FL

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Sonia Pressman Fuentes:
 
• A child who emigrated from Nazi Germany, arriving in New York with her parents and brother in 1934
• First woman attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
• Co-founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW) and Federally Employed Women (FEW)
• Speaker on women's rights issues before audiences in the U.S., Europe and Asia
• Featured in the Gallery of Prominent Refugees established by the U. N. High Commissioner for Refugees in 2000
• One of five women inducted into the Maryland Women's Hall of Fame for the year 2000 - Click here for photo
• Included in What Happened to the Children Who Fled Nazi Persecution (2006), Feminists Who Changed America, 1963-1975 (2006) and Women of Achievement in Maryland History (2002).
• Author of the memoir: Eat First -- You Don't Know What They'll Give You, The Adventures of an Immigrant Family and Their Feminist Daughter


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Name
Sonia Fuentes

Story of My Life ID
SoniaFuentes


Story URL
www.storyofmylife.com/SoniaFue ntes

Maiden Name
Pressman

Born
May 30, 1928

City of Birth
Berlin, Germany

Gender
Female

City (most recent)
Sarasota, FL

Occupation
Writer, Speaker, Founder NOW, Attorney