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A veritable textbook on hyperbole. Worse than anything that Stewart Edward White penned for the Southern Pacific Railroad's magazine of boosterism, Sunset. Just for example, Irwin writes, "I'd rather be in prison in California than free anywhere else." Well, maybe, 90 years on since she wrote that, it explains why prison guards in California are paid so well and why the Golden State is falling apart financially.