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The Misfits
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:26:33
Publish Date: 2018-04-01 23:30:00
Description:

In 1931, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Nevada legislature passed two bills: one to legalize gambling, the other to legalize a six-week waiting period for a divorce. Over the next few decades, hundreds of thousands of people, mostly women, would journey to the desert state for a quickie divorce, a chance to forget their problems and a shot at reinvention.
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