Remembering Lena Horne

Remembering Lena Horne
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True to Herself
As a child, she had wanted to be a schoolteacher, and onstage or in the talk-show-guest chair, that's what she so superbly was: the professor and the lesson, an inspiring example of outliving prejudice, turning stormy weather into blue skies and beauty into truth.She was 92 when she passed away.

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