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sorority. But, people, trying to remember if they knew her, at both the university and the sorority could find no record of her at either entity. The fact was that she had enrolled at the university in the fall of 1951 and was "rushed" by the sorority, but she only stayed at the school a few weeks
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expected her to bathe in the ocean, something she didn't want to do because she was constantly catching a cold. The divorce became final on
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