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The Six-Week Cure by Ellie Gordon-Moershel

The Six-Week Cure

from 99% Invisible

by Ellie Gordon-Moershel

Published: Tue Nov 07 2023

Show Notes

In the mid-1900s,people flocked to Reno, Nevada -- not for frontier gold or loose slots, but to get out of bad marriages. The city became known as the "Divorce Capital of the World." For much of modern history, it has been relatively easy to get married, and extremely difficult to get divorced -- and for a time, this was true in the New World as well. But Reno provided the cure: TheSix-Week Cure.

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