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Early Hardship Couldn't Muffle Ella Fitzgerald's Joy - WVIK

Early Hardship Couldn't Muffle Ella Fitzgerald's Joy - WVIK

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Early Hardship Couldn't Muffle Ella Fitzgerald's Joy
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"She was on the streets of Harlem dancing for tips," Hasse says. She earned more pennies as a lookout for cops outside a brothel. At one point, she was arrested for truancy and sent to a reform school, where she was regularly beaten. So she ran away ...
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