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Peggy

[peg-ee]

noun

  1. a female given name, form of Margaret.



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“It’s like the beginning of a tidal wave,” said Peggy Wheeler, vice president of policy of the California Hospital Association.

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Benton plays Peggy Scott on the HBO drama, set in New York high society in the late 1800s.

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Peggy and Dorothy discovered the truth, only to learn that the little boy had since died of scarlet fever.

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“You go through such extreme loss and your life still goes on. There are these ways that you compartmentalize and carry on, and then these triggers happen and you’re back on the floor like it first happened. I thought it was really beautiful to get to see Peggy so strong in the face of really unreasonable circumstances.”

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“The more we explore what really went on in that time, the more we can make Black characters in television, film and theater fully three-dimensional,” says Audra McDonald, who plays Peggy’s mother, Dorothy.

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