She spent her 21st birthday on board the rescue ship Carpathia, from where she wrote a letter to her mother, who had remained in Cornwall, saying she had been "thrown" into a lifeboat wearing just her nightdress and boots.

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Natoma Canfield -- self-employed cancer survivor from Ohio -- she wrote us a letter.

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In a letter she wrote to a friend that summer, she said Tommy had hit on her, but she wasn't interested.

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In a letter to her mother, she wrote: ''As a last wish I have asked that my 'material substance' be left to you.

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Before Susan Patton wrote the letter that went viral, she had attended a Princeton conference about women and leadership.

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But when she heard that McKinney -- the highest ranking noncommissioned officer in the Army -- was appointed to a special task force that was supposed to investigate sexual harassment, she wrote him an angry letter.

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The trial heard of a letter Turkish President Turgut Ozal wrote to Margaret Thatcher in September 1990 - two months before she resigned as UK prime minister - asking her to ensure UK authorities acted with "fairness" towards PPI.

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