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A World for Perfect People

Montana Public Radio | By mtpr.org

Published March 19, 2014 at 1:19 PM MDT

3/19/14: This week on "Mountain West Voices:" 95-year-old Irene Roberts, a student at Carroll College in Helena, Montana, talks about her life-long love of learning, about farm life during the Depression, about polio and poverty, and about the examples of generosity and kindness that have inspired and sustained her.

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