“My job here today, our job, is to tell you the one thing you can count on. The one thing I can guarantee you can expect in life is that you will experience the thoroughly unexpected.”

—  Dana Reeve

Middlebury College Address (2004)

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Actress, singer, activist 1961–2006

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