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To adopt the posture of the hero is the most unheroic of all acts.

Dorothy Norman

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Dorothy Norman
Age: 92 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 28
Died: 1997
Died: April 12
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Photographer
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
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Adopt
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Hero

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