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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sarah Marks came out to me on a sunny Tuesday
afternoon as I was driving back to the office after lunch.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It had been a long and circuitous journey with
Sarah and I thought I knew everything about her. To say I was surprised is
putting it mildly. At first I didn’t believe her. She was making it up to get
attention. Then I felt protective. I didn’t want people making fun or shunning
her. As is the case in the complicated relationship between author and
character, sometimes everything isn’t known up front and the mysteries lie in
the subtleties. PLEASE HOLD was supposed to be a New Adult, Romance about the
world of high-level, Hollywood studio executive assistants. A quirky tale about
one women’s struggle to divine guidance.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.0pt;">So, with turning signal blinking in the left-hand
lane, waiting for the red arrow to turn green, I had some time to think.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Why now? When Sarah and I started this journey
together around nine years ago she was most certainly heterosexual. As a writer,
I pride myself in knowing all there is to know about my characters, especially
the protagonists. How could I have missed such an important detail?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Our journey together started with a massive and
jubilant download of 28 pages written in one session. From there the story
flowed beautifully and for several years progressed nicely. Then I hit a wall
and, try as I might, nothing seemed to help the movement of the characters or
the story. Finally, I put the book down and I wrote and published an
award-winning Young Adult, Science-Fiction series called the MOA books. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It bugged me to have to put PLEASE HOLD down
but, as the Moa Series began to gather steam with awards and publicity, I let
go of finishing the book—at least for the time being. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Five years later, I felt a calling to begin
writing PLEASE HOLD again and, up until the coming out at the streetlight
moment, I wasn’t sure why. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Stopped at the intersection, red left turn
arrow barring me from any forward movement, I retraced my mental steps over the
previous nine years in writing PLEASE HOLD. There were very subtle hints and
the more I explored and investigated, the more I realize the information had
been there all along.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The minute the light turned green, I ran back
to my desk ready to begin the arduous task of heavy editing. However, as I pored
over the story, I discovered something incredible. Very little was different about
Sarah Marks. The relationship that I’d written was, if anything, more intimate
and honest. Nothing about her trials or story or any of the other characters
needed changing. Not one single bit. The more I read, the prouder I became of
Sarah. It was as if her world opened up something beautiful about human nature
that I’d been trying to express in PLEASE HOLD and now that message was clear.
Human is human. Love is love.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The next step came when I gave the manuscript
to a gay male friend of mine to read. I wanted to make sure that I captured the
world appropriately, kindly and as inoffensively as possible. Although the
visceral descriptions were born from first-hand experience during my work at
Fox Studio, I am a heterosexual and wanted to make sure I was writing in an
authentic way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“You know, after reading this people are going
to think you’re a lesbian, right?” He said as he patted the manuscript gently. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In that moment, I realized something about
myself and about Sarah. She had given me such a gift in allowing me to write a story
that portrays a woman who hides nothing of herself and, at the same time,
struggles with her turbulent past and challenges at work. Sarah showed me that
nothing precludes you from being human.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<strong>PLEASE HOLD</strong> a New Adult Novel by award-winning author Tricia Stewart Shiu, was just named Winner in the Best 1<sup>st</sup>Chapter at the Novel Festival. This fresh and illuminating novel recently won in the Best Unpublished Manuscript Category at the Southern California Book Festival.<br />
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<strong><em>Steno Pad. Check. #2 pencil. Check. Mary Tyler Moore Shrine. Wait. What? A workplace bully unearths Sarah Marks' secret past and she asks "What Would Mary Do?"</em></strong><br />
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<strong>PLEASE HOLD </strong>is the story of an ordinary, single woman, Sarah Marks, making it on her own in LA as an executive assistant in the entertainment industry, who just happens to have a shrine to Mary Tyler Moore.<br />
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The story explores just how far women have really come, how one woman handles the trials faced in the turbulence of show business and how she chooses to divine guidance.<br />
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<strong>"LOVED it! Fell in love with Sarah and wished the story was longer so I could "hang out" with her life more." – Erica Edwards Kloetstra</strong><br />
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Award-winning author, Tricia Stewart Shiu, draws from her extensive experience as a veteran, high-level executive assistant at one of the top six entertainment studios in Los Angeles. Ms. Shiu's<strong> YA, SciFi Fantasy Mystical Adventure Series, The Moa Books—MOA, STATUE OF KU and IRON SHINTO—</strong>have earned 23 awards and honors at national and international book festivals. IRON SHINTO recently won Best YA Novel at the DIY Book Festival, an 'Honorable Mention' in the <strong>London</strong> and <strong>New York Book Festivals</strong> in the Young Adult category and 'Runner Up' at the renowned <strong>Beach Book Festival<em>. </em></strong>The book was also 'Runner Up' at The <strong>Great Southeast Book Festival</strong>, 'Honorable Mention' in the <strong>San Francisco</strong>, <strong>Southern California</strong> and <strong>Los Angeles Book Festivals</strong> in the Young Adult category and in Portland Oregon's <strong>Great Northwest Book Festival</strong>. All three books in the series chronicle a fanciful flight through time and space in a multi-dimensional universe of interplanetary spirits. Ms. Shiu continues to inspire with her non-fiction series <strong>THE GATEKEEPER'S GUIDE BOOKS,</strong> which include 3 minute rituals to transform your life. The 3 minute rituals are also available on iTunes, Spotify and through all major music services.<br />
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<span style="color: white;">PLEASE HOLD was named winner of the November 2015 1st Chapter Novel Festival. The following is an excerpt from the Q & A featured on the Writing Festival blog regarding the inspiration for the New Adult Novel.</span><br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-weight: 700;">1. What is your novel about?</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Steno pad. Check. #2 pencil. Check. Shrine to Mary Tyler Moore. Wait. What?</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Sarah Marks, a top tier movie studio executive assistant, has a secret past, which is unearthed by a workplace bully, so she asks “What Would Mary Do?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">PLEASE HOLD, Winner of Best Unpublished Manuscript at the Southern California Book Festival, offers an insider’s look at the world of high-level studio executive assistants and one woman’s struggle to make sense of it all. Has she come a long way, baby? Only Mary knows.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">In this quirky slice of life story, award-winning author, Tricia Stewart Shiu, draws from her extensive experience as a veteran, high-level executive assistant at one of the top six entertainment studios in Los Angeles.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Mary Tyler Moore inspired countless women (and shaped a generation) with her media presence and this is the basis for a unique book. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">PLEASE HOLD, Winner of Best Unpublished Manuscript at the Southern California Book Festival, is the story of an ordinary, single woman, making it on her own in LA as an executive assistant in the entertainment industry, who just happens to have a shrine to Mary Tyler Moore. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">The story is a ‘slice of life’ look into how far women have really come, how one woman handles the trials faced in the turbulence of show business and how she chooses to divine guidance.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Award-winning author, Tricia Stewart Shiu, draws from her extensive experience as a veteran, high-level executive assistant at one of the top six entertainment studios in Los Angeles.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-weight: 700;">2. Why should this novel be read by people?</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Not only does PLEASE HOLD offer a rare glimpse into the world of top tier gatekeepers, it also serves as a reminder that spirituality comes in many forms and no one should judge another before knowing the full story. Everyone’s journey to her own truth is layered and we all choose our path based on the highest form of guidance available. As we grow, so does our guidance.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-weight: 700;">3. How would you describe this novel in two words?</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Quirky & Illuminating</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-weight: 700;">4. What movie have you seen the most in your life?</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Zoolander</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-weight: 700;">5. How long have you been working on this novel?</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">9 years</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-weight: 700;">6. Do you have an all-time favorite novel?</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">A Portrait of An Artist by James Joyce</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Generation X by Douglas Coupland</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-weight: 700;">7. What motivated you to write this novel?</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">I watched a documentary about the women’s movement in the 1970s and the Equal Rights Amendment and was inspired to write about my own experiences (in fictional form, of course) working with some of the most influential executives in the entertainment industry. </span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-weight: 700;">8. What artist would you love to have dinner with?</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Jeff Lynne</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Human Rights, Self-Healing, Spiritual and Personal Growth.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: white; font-weight: 700;">10. What influenced you to enter the Novel Festival?</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">My publicist Scott Lorenz.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Stay passionate and connected to the source of your idea. Your plot, characters and details may make their own journey, but if you are connected to the initial reason for writing the book, article, screenplay or script (and why you write in general) you will retain a sense of authenticity. This will carry you through any challenges that arise.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">To read more go to <a href="http://wildsoundfestivalreview.com/2015/11/07/chapter-1-reading-of-the-novel-please-hold-by-tricia-stewart-shiu/" style="color: #b0d177; text-decoration: none;">http://wildsoundfestivalreview.com/2015/11/07/chapter-1-reading-of-the-novel-please-hold-by-tricia-stewart-shiu/</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "gentium basic" , "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 20px; font-weight: 700;">PLEASE HOLD </span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "gentium basic" , "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 20px;">named</span><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: "gentium basic" , "georgia" , "times new roman" , "times" , serif; font-size: 20px;"> Writing Festival’s November 2015 1st Chapter Novel Winner.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Steno pad. Check. #2 pencil. Check. Shrine to Mary Tyler Moore. Wait. What?</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Sarah Marks, a top tier movie studio executive assistant, has a secret past, which is unearthed by a workplace bully, so she asks “What Would Mary Do?”</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">PLEASE HOLD, Winner of Best Unpublished Manuscript at the Southern California Book Festival, offers an insider’s look at the world of high-level studio executive assistants and one woman’s struggle to make sense of it all. Has she come a long way, baby? Only Mary knows.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">In this quirky slice of life story, award-winning author, Tricia Stewart Shiu, draws from her extensive experience as a veteran, high-level executive assistant at one of the top six entertainment studios in Los Angeles.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Mary Tyler Moore inspired countless women (and shaped a generation) with her media presence and this is the basis for a unique book. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">PLEASE HOLD, Winner of Best Unpublished Manuscript at the Southern California Book Festival, is the story of an ordinary, single woman, making it on her own in LA as an executive assistant in the entertainment industry, who just happens to have a shrine to Mary Tyler Moore. </span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">The story is a ‘slice of life’ look into how far women have really come, how one woman handles the trials faced in the turbulence of show business and how she chooses to divine guidance.</span></div>
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<span style="color: white;">Award-winning author, Tricia Stewart Shiu, draws from her extensive experience as a veteran, high-level executive assistant at one of the top six entertainment studios in Los Angeles.</span></div>
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still rings true today. Despite the strides women have made with regard to
sexuality or even equal pay, the Mary Tyler Moore Show is still relevant. In
October 2015, PBS launched a thought-provoking retrospective documentary, <a href="http://www.pbs.org/program/mary-tyler-moore-celebration/">Mary Tyler
Moore: A Celebration</a>, honoring the 45th anniversary of the Mary Tyler Moore
Show and the actress, as well. As I watch and laughed out loud at the priceless
clips (Mary screaming “Out Loud” or “Shut up, Ted” during a newscast or Phyllis
yelling into Rhoda’s hairdryer tube to get her attention) and listened to
show’s cast opine about the show’s social significance to women around the
world, I began to feel a longing to share my love and appreciation for not only
Mary Tyler Moore, but all those women who came into their own during that era. Yes,
I know it’s only TV, but the documentary also notes that Mary Tyler Moore, the
actress’ generosity both on and off screen contributed to a magical working
experience for all. The more I watched, I became convinced that this show might
just hold the key to gaining a long desired foothold on women’s rights. Therefore,
everyone (both male and female) should watch at least one episode of the Mary
Tyler Moore Show. At most, they might find a new perspective on society as a
whole, at the very least they would have a laugh or two, which would certainly
make the world a better place.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: #0400;">Nowadays, it’s hard to imagine there was a day when it was rare for a
woman to work “outside the home” but also, even rarer for her to be single past
thirty. The Mary Tyler Moore Show offers an glimpse into that world. Mary
Richards broke new ground as she was both single and employed as did the
actress, Mary Tyler Moore, when she was offered her own series. The show’s
co-stars and some heavy hitting media personalities weigh in, during the
documentary, on the Mary Tyler Moore Show’s social impact and offer some
perspective about the world that preceded the show’s pilot which aired on
September 19, 1970 on CBS.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In 1940, when Helen Gurley was still in high
school, she worked at radio station KHJ in Hollywood, California. Every day her
co-workers played a game called “Scuttle.”</span><span style="mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: #0400;"> The “game,” went
something like this: the editors and sound engineers would choose a woman and
chase her down. When they caught her, they would steal her underwear. That was
it. Nobody objected. The women adapted, Helen Gurley Brown (longtime
editor-in-chief of Cosmopollitan) explained in a 1991 Wall Street Journal op-ed
article, “by wearing their best underwear to work.”</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: #0400;">Enter The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970. Millions of women watched as
Mary Richards, 30-years-old, made her way through life in the big city. Immediately
evident in the show, was what was missing—a husband, boyfriend or anyone to
tell Mary what to do. Imagine the thread of excitement running through the
female audience, as they watched social roles and expectations being blown to
bits by a mere television show. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">So what was a woman to do in 1970? Could she,
as the famous MTM Show theme says, "make it after all?" Was Helen
Gurley Brown's experience typical of her day? And how could a woman like Mary
retain her essence, her female integrity, and still wear the current fashion—a
man’s suit tailored to fit a woman? This social change, a uniform of male
clothing, looked on the surface to be something powerful. Women appeared equal
to men in their pantsuits and with their business lunches. However, they often
encountered a surprising opposition—other women. They knew men would be
upset…but <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">women</i>?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">A working woman in the 1970’s could expect to
run up against dual opposition. From men it was, “If you devote the same amount
of time and effort as a man, we’ll pay you less and make you work harder.” From
women it was, “Isn’t it sad that she doesn’t (or can’t) have a husband, child
and family?” Cloris Leachman, the actress who plays Mary’s friend and neighbor,
Phyllis, on the show was often the voice of the judgmental married homemaker
and in the PBS documentary says she’s the woman, “no one wanted to be.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Valerie Harper puts it perfectly, “The show
was brilliant because Mary is who you want to be, who you wish you were, Rhoda
is who you probably are and Phyllis is who you are afraid you’ll become.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: #0400;">Mary’s brand of quavering optimism—combined with a never-say-die focus—
made her an ideal candidate to lead women through the trenches of 1970’s
workplace warfare. Yet, within the confines of the writing, the strict social
code of behavior, Mary Richards finds valuable friendships at work, confidence
as she finds a place for herself<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in her
career and masters the art of saying, “No.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: #0400;">Why look back? Because it certainly would be nice for Boomer women and
their predecessors ro have some reassurance that they actually did do some good
way back then...that the rights those feminists fought so hard for, made a
difference. It would be even more fabulous for Millenial men and women just
getting into the working or are early in their careers to gain perspective on
where women are at this point in history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-ansi-language: #0400; mso-bidi-language: X-NONE; mso-fareast-language: #0400;">Mary Richards seeped into 70s culture subtly. During her own MTM Show
reunion, Oprah said, “I was 16-years-old when I first saw this groundbreaking
show. It’s hard to put into words how much I wanted t move to Minneapolis, to
work at WJM, walk through those [office] doors and sit at Mary’s desk. And
today, I get to do it. It’s a dream come true.” She wasn’t alone. Women of all
ages wanted to experience how she would handle her controversial and enviable
lifestyle. Life wasn’t easy back then for anyone, let alone a single woman on
her own. The floundering economy, rising gas prices and job layoffs were
reflected regularly in the show’s story lines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Besides the fact
that in many respects, it’s déjà vu all over again, what has changed in the
last 45 years? Women today are now free to be sexual beings and move as high as
the glass ceiling allows. But is this what all the feminists intended when they
fought so hard for Equal Rights? Or have we coasted to a stop in the ongoing
journey toward this new equality?<o:p></o:p></div>
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One indicator is
the shifting opinion, in the United States, about electing a female president.
A <a href="http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/01/26/despite-progress-u-s-still-lags-many-nations-in-women-leadership/">recent
Pew Research Center survey</a> shows that, 73% of adult Americans said they
think the U.S. will elect a female president in their lifetimes. That sentiment
transcends gender and party lines: 75% of men and 72% of women said they expect
to see a female president before they die, as did 85% of Democrats, 64% of
Republicans and 75% of independents.<o:p></o:p><br />
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The women who
fought so hard for their rights—as well as the rights of their children,
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and acknowledging our journey, we enhance our lives, our future and ourselves.
The Mary Tyler Moore Show is the key to open up and keep the conversation
going. Women have come so far in so many ways, it’s time to celebrate our
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