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The boys that were running away from America because they didn't want to get involved with the Vietnam War had come to me. They would tell me how they felt.

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Eartha Kitt
Age: 81 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 17
Died: 2008
Died: December 25
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Eartha Mae Keith
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