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when they were young

and extremely vulnerable.

[camera shutters clicking]

And for those

who will choose not to believe

that I am speaking the truth

of what happened to me,

please know that I wish it were not true.

It's always personal to me

if a woman has been a victim

of injustice and has been hurt.

...alone with this secret.

It's always personal.

[Allred] My commitment to women

comes from my own life experience.

I thought that what happened to me

was just my bad luck.

I didn't realize

that some of what happened to me

happened to millions of other women.

I was born and grew up

in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

So this was growing up ,

and in terms of segregation,

it was mainly by religion.

This was the Catholic neighborhood.

I lived in the Jewish neighborhood.

Wait a minute, are we at fifty--

-Yes.

-Well, here we are.

Looks different.

There it is.

5533 Springfield Avenue.

My mother came

to the United States from England

when she was in her twenties.

And my father, I think,

was born in the United States .

It's not really a hundred percent clear

because my father didn't like

to talk about himself.

He worked six days a week

as a door-to-door salesman.

We didn't have much money.

My father would put out just enough

every day on a table by the door

for my mother to go and get groceries

just for that day.

Sometimes I would go to movie,

and he would wait outside

and he would say,

"I don't really want to see that movie."

And I figured out later

it was because he didn't really

have enough money for both of us.

I met my best friend, Fern,

on my first day at the Philadelphia

High School for Girls,

an all-public, all-girls high school.

Hi, gorgeous.

Hi!

Oh, wonderful to see you!

[Caplan] She sat in front of me,

and could see that I was

having difficulty figuring out

the forms to fill out.

And she turned around and said,

"You look as if you're having a problem.

Can I help you?"

She was popular with boys,

very popular with boys.

She was kind and inclusive.

And bossy.

[Allred] When I was thinking

of going to college ,

I said to my father, "I don't know

how we're going to afford this."

And he said,

"Don't worry, I've been saving.

If you can get in, you'll be going."

At the University of Pennsylvania

in those days,

it was about 93 percent male

and seven percent female.

It was very easy to meet boys.

I met Peyton, I believe,

in about the first week of college.

He was a fraternity boy,

absolutely drop dead gorgeous.

Look, we've all been in college and been

attracted to the really cute guy

who's very smart and very funny ,

and that was my dad.

You know, he was always such a wit,

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