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title: A cat named Schuster
date: 2011-02-08T05:14:26-05:00
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[From the Archives of Our Bodies, Our Blog](/blog)# A cat named Schuster

By Our Bodies Ourselves • February 8, 2011

Please note: This entry -- originally posted at [Our Bodies, Our Blog](https://ourbodiesourselves.org/blog) -- has not been updated since the publication date listed above.

Submitted by: Margie Sved  
  
Happy Anniversary!! Rubies and Red dresses!!  
  
I found my second edition, which I dated as having bought in July 1978. I have no idea what’s happened to my first edition; I thought I had kept it. And, I first saw that first printing, before the first book, sometime around 1972, while in college.  
  
The funny story around when the first edition came out, I got two kittens from the same litter, and wanted to give them “paired” names. I ended up calling them “Simon” and “Schuster,” since they had published *OBOS*. Simon died young, Schuster lived for  
  
years, and I loved telling the story when people asked me how I chose that name!!  
  
"Our Bodies, Ourselves" came out about when I came out, so I have always tied the two together. I became involved in the women’s health movement in 1974, when I was one of the founding mothers of the Durham Women’s Health Cooperative (Durham, NC). And from those women’s health beginnings, I decided to go to medical school (1975-1979). Still seems like just yesterday. And in so many ways OBOS was my guide, and still is!  
  
*In this series, readers [tell their stories](/history/reading-our-bodies-ourselves/ "Reading Our Bodies, Ourselves") about their experiences with the book and its impact on their lives. [View more stories](/category/our-bodies-ourselves/readers-stories/).*

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