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The Way It Was

The author at 17.In 1959, when I was a precocious smarty-pants still in grade school, I wrote a fake letter to Doris Blake, the New York Daily News advice columnist. I pretended to be a teenage girl…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1955 words)

Lana Peters, Stalin’s Daughter, Dies at 85

Born Svetlana Stalina, Stalin's daughter changed her name twice and lived in several countries after her famous defection. Her three successive names were signposts on a twisted, bewildering…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 28, 2011
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2189 words)
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