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    • News and Features
    • Music Writing
    • Essays
    • Bite-Sized Blog
    • San Francisco's Forgotten Cemeteries (2023)
    • A Riff of One's Own (2021)
    • Tenacity: Heavy Metal in the Middle East and Africa (2018)
    • The Columbine Effect (2013)
    • Sacred Sonoma (2007)
    • Beloved (2007)
    • Read the Music (2006)
    • Dream Brother (1999)
    • Poetry (2005-present)
  • San Francisco's Magdalen Asylum
  • Dead Reckoning podcast
  • Press
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  • Sensitive Enough
  • Editing Services
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Sophia (Sophie) Finegold /October 10, 2022 by Beth Winegarner

Today in 1901, 16-year-old Sophia (or Sophie, according to census records) Finegold was sentenced to the San Francisco Magdalen Asylum because another woman, Aggie Kelly, had allegedly abducted Sophie and placed her in a Eureka brothel. pic.twitter.com/XhO6egwx14

— Beth Winegarner (@bethwinegarner) October 10, 2022
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