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This is such a compelling, tragic story! It’s the true experiences of young women who worked painting watches with radium-laced paint, so the numbers would glow. Partially due to ignorance and partly due to a cover-up by the companies, these girls were exposed to large amounts of radium, especially due to the practice of lip-pointing the brush. It took years for the effects to start showing up, sometimes within a few and sometimes after decades. The radium went straight into the bones and teeth,
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