Ida Wigley celebrates 100th Birthday
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Happy Birthday to Ida Elizabeth Wigley
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With each masterful stroke of her pen, typewriter or (later) her computer keyboard, Legendary author, Toni Morrison keeps readers of her works and listeners of her words spellbound. “We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives,” she once said.