April 7, 1915 - July 17, 1959
The story behind the quote is probably apocryphal, but it always comes as a jolting surprise when I stop to think how that kind of thing was happening not all that long ago.
Yes, we've come a long way, but still, I knew people who were alive and adulting when Billie Holiday was born, so it's not exactly ancient history. Not to me anyway.
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