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Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

Martha Graham

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Martha Graham
Age: 96 †
Born: 1894
Born: May 11
Died: 1991
Died: April 1
Artist
Ballet Dancer
Ballet Master
Choreographer
Costume Designer
Dancer
Music Pedagogue
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Martha Grehem
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Sometimes
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Years
Memories
Blood
Father
Mother
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