Word: millvina
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When she attended her first Titanic Historical Society convention, in 1988, Millvina Dean, who died May 31 at 97, had never flown in a plane or stayed in a hotel. But her quiet life turned into one of celebrity, as she was soon traveling the world to speak about surviving the Titanic disaster as an infant. Fans and reporters flocked to her bungalow in Britain's New Forest for tea and homemade sloe gin. They quickly discovered she was full of humor, charm and vitality--qualities that made her an interviewer's dream...
...weeks, Millvina was the Titanic's youngest survivor. She once lamented that the title prevented her from lying about her age. But she became the public face, and eventually the last survivor, of history's worst maritime tragedy...
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