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Tue 05 May 2009'In the lifeboat, my mother found she had me but not my brother'
Rescued from the stricken ‘Titanic’ as a baby, Millvina Dean has been pursued by the ship’s compelling story ever since. Now a special fund is helping to make a great survivor’s future more secure. The 97-year-old talks to FIONOLA MEREDITH
THERE’S A LONG, long lifetime reflected in Millvina Dean’s hands. Although gnarled and age-spotted, they are elegant and exquisitely manicured. These hands are strong and expressive too, flying around as she speaks, grasping a pen as she signs her autograph, a little wobbly but very determined, for the umpteenth time. Now aged 97, Millvina is the last living link to the most famous ship in history.
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