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Sandra Day O’Connor, first woman on the Supreme Court, dies at 93

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Sandra’s mother, Ada Mae, was the college-educated daughter of a prosperous Texas merchant and rancher. The Lazy B was so remote that Sandra’s parents sent her to live with her grandparents in El Paso, Texas, a four-hour train ride away, to attend school, beginning in first grade and continuing (except for one year) through high school. “I

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