A Room for Jumping
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The Great Depression hit when the stock market crashed on October 29, 1929, and just like that, the Roaring Twenties were over. It was a time of desperation and emotional pain. It became so unbearable that when one would go to a hotel, the woman or man at the counter was to ask if they were booking a room for sleeping, or for jumping, and those jumping would not be checking out.
"How horrible it is to love something death can touch."
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