New York: A Memoir — The Mary Katherine Gallagher House for Fledgling Film and Video Editors

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Once the shock of realizing I accepted a job for a mere $25,000 a year in New York City, the dread set in. I laid in bed every night at my friends’ house in Connecticut and fervently wished I could somehow go…