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Agatha Morley: What do you do, Katrin?
Katrin Holstrom: Well, at home I do everything. Make six beds every morning. Do washing, ironing for mama, papa, my three brothers, myself. Clean all seven rooms and do dishes of course. And, I help mama with the canning. I preserve meat, candle eggs, dill pickles, smoke ham and bacon. I wait on tables - 40 hands at harvest time. And I make glogg.
Agatha Morley: You do?
Katrin Holstrom: Yah, at Christmas time, with a hot poker. You want to know what I do outside?
Glenn Morley: I don't know about my mother, but I'd be fascinated.
Katrin Holstrom: Well, I plow with horse and tractor. I hoe potatoes, shock wheat, milk cows, bed horses, butcher pigs, kill and dress chickens, and I cut wood for mill and stove.
Agatha Morley: You've got a job, Katrin
Katrin Holstrom: Well, at home I do everything. Make six beds every morning. Do washing, ironing for mama, papa, my three brothers, myself. Clean all seven rooms and do dishes of course. And, I help mama with the canning. I preserve meat, candle eggs, dill pickles, smoke ham and bacon. I wait on tables - 40 hands at harvest time. And I make glogg.
Agatha Morley: You do?
Katrin Holstrom: Yah, at Christmas time, with a hot poker. You want to know what I do outside?
Glenn Morley: I don't know about my mother, but I'd be fascinated.
Katrin Holstrom: Well, I plow with horse and tractor. I hoe potatoes, shock wheat, milk cows, bed horses, butcher pigs, kill and dress chickens, and I cut wood for mill and stove.
Agatha Morley: You've got a job, Katrin
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How do you do Mrs Morley
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Mr Morley said you did very well this afternoon Katrin
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Would you like to work for us
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You mean steady Yes
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Well I do have to earn some money
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Anything wrong with our money Oh no
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I need it so I can start my nursing course
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But uh
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I would not be permanent for more than uh
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two months
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That's permanent these days
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Well that's settled
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What can you do Katrin
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Well at home I do everything
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Make six beds every morning
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Do washing ironing for Mama Papa my three brothers myself
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Clean all seven rooms and do dishes of course
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And I help Mama with the canning
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I preserve meat canned legs dill pickles smoke ham and bacons
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I wait on tables Forty hands at harvest time
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And I make glog
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You do
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Yeah at Christmas time
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With a hot poker
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You want to know what I do outside
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I don't know about my mother but I'd be fascinated
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Well I plow with horse and tractor
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I hoe potatoes shuck wheat milk cows bed horses
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butcher pigs kill and dress chickens
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and I cut wood for mill or stove
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You got a job Katrin
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Movie Summary
After leaving her family's farm to study nursing in the city, a young woman finds herself on an unexpected path towards politics.