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Sadie Grabel was born in a small city in upstate New York in 1908, the second child, and first daughter, of Isaac and Fanny. Her mother had come to the US as a five-year-old. Her father came when he was sixteen. They were both children of the old world, but Sadie was a child of the new.

( At nine, she knew what she wanted to do )

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note: the residential hotel where the girls live is based on the barbizon hotel, which opened in 1927.

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Now all Sadie needed was a job.

She was torn between enjoying the city while she had a lot of free time to enjoy it, and finding work right away so she could afford all that fun. She and the twins had enough money for a few weeks at the residential hotel, but they would need jobs if they wanted to stay. Sadie let the twins convince her to start applying for jobs right away, on the theory that they'd have more fun once they had money and weren't so worried about having to go home unfulfilled, and prove all their parents right about New York not being the place for them.

( The residential hotel wasn't much help with finding jobs )

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