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• After losing her father when she was nine, Erma and her mother moved in with relatives and her mother went to work to support them. While in junior high, Erma was already showing her gift for humorous writing, with a column in the school newspaper. Her column in her high school paper two years later was a serious column, with a mix of wit. At 15, she landed a job at the Dayton Herald as a part-time copygirl, and at 16, she published her first journalistic effort. This came when Shirley Temple was visiting Dayton in 1943, and Erma’s interview with the child star became a newspaper feature.

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