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A Woman Lost Two Partners to Guns—Then the N.R.A. Came to Collect
Stormy Kay was born in 1961, when her parents were young newlyweds, unprepared and thrust into adulthood. Stormy’s mother cut meat at a grocery store and taught classes at a beauty school, and her father was a construction worker. They couldn’t afford child care, so Stormy’s father took her with him to job sites. “My […]
A Woman Lost Two Partners to Guns—Then the N.R.A. Came to Collect
Stormy Kay was born in 1961, when her parents were young newlyweds, unprepared and thrust into adulthood. Stormy’s mother cut meat at a grocery store and taught classes at a beauty school, and her father was a construction worker. They couldn’t afford child care, so Stormy’s father took her with him to job sites. “My […]
