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My mother came here to New York. She and my grandmother were domestics, cooking, cleaning for other people.

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David Dinkins
Age: 93 †
Born: 1927
Born: July 10
Died: 2020
Died: November 23
Former Mayor Of New York City
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Trenton
New Jersey
David Norman Dinkins
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