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I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life.

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Rose Kennedy
Age: 104 †
Born: 1890
Born: July 21
Died: 1995
Died: January 22
Philanthropist
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Boston
Massachusetts
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald Kennedy
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When I think of my past, I try to dwell on the good times, the happy moments, and not to be haunted by the bad. . . To me the gift of life is contained in the command, whatever happens: Don't let it get you. Just keep on going. Thus, I try to think of the good that I have already experienced and what will still be coming.
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