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In American Society today, we need to have volunteerism. I truly believe that it is the glue that will hold us together and it will be the energy that will take us into the 21st century.

Barbara Mikulski

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Barbara Mikulski
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: July 20
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I wanted to [share] what a gracious kind of guy George Mitchell was.
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