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{weblog_name} - Rae Of Hope?
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When I first walked into the vestibule at Weinberg Village in Owings Mills last week, I spotted Rae Rossen sitting alone in the lobby, waiting for me, and thought to myself, “That can’t be her. She certainly doesn’t look dead.” Then, I shook Rae’s warm hand and said, “You look great, Rae, considering …” That’s just my morbid sense of humor, but Rae actually thought I was referring to the fact that she looks far younger than her 81 years. “Oh, thank you,” she said, seemingly a little embarrassed and rubbing the smooth skin on her face, “I get it from my mother, alav hasholom.” As Monica Lopossay, the photographer for my cover story this week on Rae, said to me, “If there is anyone in this world who is absolutely not dead and full of life, it’s Rae… read more