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GRETEL KILLEEN

“WHEN I WAS GROWING UP, THE ONLY WOMEN ROLE MODELS I RECALL WERE THE QUEEN OR MARY MAGDALENE”

LILLIAN RUTHBARKER

y grandmother Lillian had a rebellious, beautiful, free spirit – the kind that’s often thought of as an artist’s soul. She was born in 1892 and lived to be 100. As a child she caught a virus that

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