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Juanita

She died at age 75.
No one knew for over a week.
The last years while she was alive,
Sharing her life she did not seek.
The first black woman decades past
In South Carolina to be
A state legislator at last,
Education issues her key,
Neighbors, former colleagues and kin
Wonder if they should have done more.
But her life and death might have been
What she had freely chosen for.

Juanita Goggens froze to death,
At home alone in her last breath.