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Country music legend Loretta Lynn is three years older than she has led people to believe, an age change that undermines the story she told of being married at 13 in "Coal Miner's Daughter."

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14th Street West library a godsend

May 19, 2012 @ 12:00 AM

I want to thank the employees at the 14th Street West library for their kindness and consideration to me, for I am an amputee and have to go in the library on crutches. The library has an automatic door for the handicapped.
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