St. Louis Magazine

The Long Run

RAE MOHRMANN THOUGHT she would remarry. She thought she would have more kids. She hoped it all would happen not long after her divorce at the age of 25. But when 30 rolled around, and those goals seemed as distant as ever, Mohrmann began to wonder: Who am I, and who do I want to be?

One night in 1978, guided by the soft glow of her television set, Mohrmann found her path. While flipping through the channels, she settled on a program that told the story of Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to run the Boston

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