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The Secrets We Kept, by Lara Prescott

Secretary: a person entrusted with a secret. From the Latin secretus, secretum. We all typed, but some of us did more. We spoke no word of the work we did after we covered our typewriters each day. Unlike some of the men, we could keep our secrets.

The last sentence in this excerpt is what inspired the title THE SECRETS WE KEPT. To me, the typists were the ones who knew the secrets of the secret keepers. They were typing, recording, and always listening.

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Pam Simpson

I had a discreet typist years ago when I was an intake caseworker. She told me once she loved my dictation because I told a story. My stories stayed with her.

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EmmyT

Love this! I worked for 38 yrs in research for the largest consumer goods company in the world. Working upstream research, there were secrets to be kept. As a young woman new to the workforce, I was s…

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