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Seton Shields

Photo Album:
The Shields Family

By Megan Smolenyak, Contributor
August / September 2015

July 24, 2015 by Leave a Comment

I’ve written about several Irish American mothers for this magazine – Eugenia Biden, Lorna Colbert, and Anne Meara – and the word that always comes to mind is indomitable. Nothing breaks them, which makes it all the more shocking when we lose them. My mother was a member of this club. The last-minute child in a Jersey City family that included two older sisters, Mom was named … [Read more...] about Photo Album:
The Shields Family

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