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Summary: Well-meaning church congregations banded together to offer 'wayward girls and fallen women' a place to get away from their profession — but it turned out most of them didn't particularly want to leave it; not yet, at least. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1890s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1303a-open-door-for-wayward-girls-and-fallen-women.html)