A Lesson On the Unwritten History of Women with Kristen Richardson
Release Date: 04/13/2022
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Kristen Richardson comes from a long line of debutantes but she chose not to debut. In this, “Lesson on the Unwritten History of Women”, find out why curiosity drove her to research this enduring tradition and why the role debutantes play in a family’s story, is much more complicated than it seems.
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