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She was close friends with a famous author
She and Ludden were good friends with writer John Steinbeck. One of her most prized possessions is a signed copy of his Nobel Prize acceptance speech, which he was in the throes of writing the day they met. Another: a black chiffon skirt that she refuses to have cleaned, because Steinbeck’s famous poodle Charley, of his 1962 travelogue/memoir Travels With Charley, muddied and slimed it.
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