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June Story

Romance at Sea

For decades in the early 1900s, poverty and the lingering effects of the potato famine shaped life in Ireland. Families became poor. And depressed. Rita Bradley grew up with scarcity all around her. She stayed awake at night, wondering what was to become of her. At age 23, in 1925, she changed all that. She needed to find new meaning in her life. She wanted to make something of herself.