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I'm the wife of an italian trader in 1270. My husband and son who, just turned 17, left home to travel to China through the Silk Road for at least 9 years. How do I survive alone, is it simple for a woman like me at the time to find a job and what would people think if I enter in another relation?

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I'm the wife of an italian trader in 1270. My husband and son who, just turned 17, left home to travel to China through the Silk Road for at least 9 years. How do I survive alone, is it simple for a woman like me at the time to find a job and what would people think if I enter in another relation?	301