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harles City, Shortly before Dorothy Booth passed away at the age of 97, her daughters made her promise to send a sign from heaven. Perhaps a cardinal, her favorite bird. “She would say, ‘I’ll see what I can do!’” Angela Abbott Patteson, Dorothy’s granddaughter-in-law, told The Dodo.

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