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Friday, February 4, 2011
Music Remembering Karen
Posted by David Schmader on Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 1:43 PM
A sad anniversary: On this day in 1983, a 32-year-old Karen Carpenter died of cardiac arrest due to "imbalances caused by anorexia nervosa." Here she is in action in 1971.
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