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| | Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth |
 | | Although the Brown family attempted from time to time to stem what they perceived to be a string of lies, the story "with its rags-to-riches drama and emphasis on how anyone, with enough gumption, could achieve the American dream" took on a life of its own. |
 | | MargaretTobin Brown was never known as "Molly" Born on July 18, 1867, in Hannibal, Missouri, Margaret was the daughter of John and Johanna Collins Tobin. |
 | | Gene Fowler called Margaret Tobin Brown "a vital Amazon," a woman who, although she could supposedly swear like a pit boss, conversed fluently with her two French maids and spoke five European languages, "a woman who was born into poverty but pulled herself up by her bootstraps" to hear the compliments of kings and princes. |
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