Breaking Clean In Judy Blunt's Story

Breaking clean was the last thing I wanted to do while reading Judy Blunt’s story; a tale of a woman who spent a good part of her life fighting to matter in her own right. A third generation ranch daughter who knew the social and cultural restrictions that awaited her because of her gender. Judy spent her days playing with rattle snakes, riding horses, befriending doomed animals, and trying to impress her father. Her mother was not much more to her than a drill sergeant and embodied everything that Judy feared she would become. Growing up in a time when electricity and running water were luxuries to have and only meant longer days with more work to be done. Judy and her siblings found solace in mischief and in my opinion she suffered from