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If you use disappointments as sort of mid- semester exams, for learning, you will learn that every disappointment you overcome makes you stronger- and wiser. The greatest success stories have been lived by those who had to grow strong and wise in that very way.

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Loretta Young
Age: 87 †
Born: 1913
Born: January 6
Died: 2000
Died: August 12
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Salt Lake City
Utah
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