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Wilma Rudolph: What do you...

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What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.

Source: In I Dream a World, by Brian Lanker, 1989.
-- Wilma Rudolph, (Jun 23 1940-1994), US track athlete; As a sprinter, she was the first woman to win three gold medals, 1960 Olympics


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