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liberalla

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1. Valentina Blackhorse of Kayenta, AZ was featured at the end of tonight's PBS NewsHour

Reply to Mike 03 (Original post)

Fri May 15, 2020, 08:29 PM

May 2020

(She is also included in the article at the link you posted)

A 28 year old mother of a one year old daughter, who had dreams of becoming a leader in the Navajo Nation someday... brought me to tears spontaneously. So young, so bright with lofty goals and a desire to serve her people... struck down so cruelly. Exactly the type of woman we need so badly. It just moved me deeply, and the tears still flow.

photo and more info in her obit in the NYT...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/obituaries/valentina-blackhorse-dead-coronavirus.html

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