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1945
Her violet eyesand her lush lashesbecame the stuff of legend. "I do remember shortly after she was born she gave us a good scare," her mother once told a biographer. "The doctor told us she had a mutation. Well, that sounded just awful, a mutation. But, when he explained that her eyes had double rows of eyelashes, I thought, well, now, that doesn't sound so terrible at all."