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She dutifully describes the big dramas that got Ms. ' editors all riled up--the crusade for and defeat of the ERA; the smear campaign in 1975 by the radical Redstockings, who attacked Steinem for work she'd done a decade earlier on behalf of a liberal cause that had CIA backing; the nationwide women's conference in Houston in 1977.
I would wake up--the final bars of "Stairway to Heaven" still running through my head from the last dance, the smell of smoke still in my hair from the last campfire--and my heart would be filled with despair, knowing that in just a few short hours the buses would arrive to transport me from the warm nurturing womb of summer camp back to the harsh, unfriendly place that is the Real World.