Billie brought herself up on the streets of Baltimore, alone, defiant. It was the last city without a sewer system in the United States,115 and she spent her childhood among clouds of stinking smoke116 from all the burning shit.
Billie [Holiday] brought herself up on the streets of Baltimore, alone, defiant. It was the last city without a sewer system in the United States, and she spent her
childhood among clouds of stinking smoke from all the burning shit."
