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is an excellent story about one woman's evolution from a poor economic status to a, later, mid-class caste in life. used her meticulous cunning in order to survive in the 18th century. She started out with a tabula rasa, or clean slate, when she is bor ....

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.... very uneasy to me; for I liv'd, as I have said, but in the worst sort of whoredom, and as I cou'd expect no Good of it, so really no good issue came and all my seeming prosperity wore off and ended in misery and destruction;..." Whenever Moll would have kids she would sell them or give them away. Moll saw children as a biprouduct of having sex. The choice of going to whoredom, however, was only because she felt the need to survive. Most animals have this instinct to survive. Whenever she would marry a man he would pay her to have sex, but his life would be short. This caused her to have to find another person in order ....