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I'll be in mourning.
I'll be in mourning for the next week or so over the loss of an American treasure from the magazines of my youth. 
Richard's $.02 
Bettie Page, Queen of Pinups, Dies at 85
NYT, 11 Dec 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/ar...e.html?_r=1&hp
Bettie Page, a legendary pinup girl whose photographs in the nude, in bondage and in naughty-but-nice poses appeared in men’s magazines and private stashes across America in the 1950s and set the stage for the sexual revolution of the rebellious ’60s, died Thursday in Los Angeles.
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