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Mary Engel, PhD

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1967;17(3):291-297.

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RALPH started shoeshining when he was 10 years old, and this is how it happened.

Well, really, the first time I went, I went down there and, you know, and I, and I just sat there for five minutes and then, you know, I didn't do nothing about it, you know, I just knew that you were supposed to shine a guy's shoes. I didn't know nothing about it, you know, and there was no one on the corner that night. I think it was a Wednesday and that's the rottenest day you can go. It's before payday . . . so I went up there and this guy came along and he says, "I'll take a shine," so I shined his shoes, and he gave me a quarter. And I go "I made a quarter!" And then I was just getting ready to go home, and I was only there for . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Ann Arbor, Mich

From the Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication May 1, 1967.

Read before the Conference on New Directions in Research on Normal Behavior, Institute for Psychosomatic and Psychiatric Research and Training, Michael Reese Hospital, Chicago, Sept 30, 1966.

Reprint requests to University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich 48104 (Dr. Engel).

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