The seamstress whose feet were tired, the pastor whose voice echoes through the ages -- they weathered some hard winters.
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Her mother had worked as a waitress during the day and a seamstress at night to earn money to bring her daughter to the United States.
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"Sometimes supervisors cheat us over wages, " said Sakina Begum, a seamstress in the Mirpur suburb of Dhaka.
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Reshma recently had separated from her husband and was bringing up her 5-year-old son, working as a seamstress in the New Wave Bottoms factory in Rana Plaza, she said.
His mother saved money to buy the instrument by working as a seamstress.
His mother, a seamstress, worked from the family's one-room flat in Tel Aviv.
Nazneen supplements the family's income as a seamstress, working from home.
Rozina Akter, a 21-year-old seamstress who was working at Phantom Apparels, a factory on the fourth floor of Rana Plaza, at the time of the disaster, says the industry offered her family a salvation of sorts, as they faced starvation in her old village.
The layoffs didn't surprise Martha Didio, who had been a Hulme seamstress since 1984.
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Saira Banu, a seamstress from a factory in Rana Plaza who suffered broken ribs in the collapse, says she would like to quit.
Fiandaca grew up in East Boston, where his mother was a seamstress, and opened his own shop in 1960 after studying at schools including the Massachusetts College of Art.
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