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         Someone to Always                                       famous, there was always negativity that
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                   Remember                                      came with her fame, and she was often

                                                                 stalked by people. Wherever she went,
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                                                                 people would stalk her. In 1997, something
         Everyone has someone that they admire. It               horrible happened. A bodyguard rode

     can be an actor, a hero or a leader. Someone                shotgun while Dodi, her boyfriend after she

     who is admirable is someone that deserves the               had divorced Prince Charles, and the
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     highest esteem. Someone that I admire is                    princess shared the back seat. Sadly, there

     Princess Diana. She is someone that should be               was a crash and the driver was killed

     remembered and highly respected. Diana,                     instantly.
     Princess of Wales was born on July 1st 1961.                    Initially, the princess suffered only a

         She was a member of the British Royal family            broken arm and a concussion. Sadly not long

     and before marrying Prince Charles, she was a               after that, she was bleeding internally. The
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     teacher. Before her marriage, she worked part               medic team tried to save her but her heart

     time as a kindergarten teacher in London’s                  stopped pumping. She died on August 31,
     Pimlico district. She was first propelled into the          1997. Her death affected a lot of people

     national spotlight at the age of 20, when she               around the world, but her legacy lives on.

     wedded Great Britain's Prince Charles at the                Her death also changed the royal family
     age of 20. Lady Diana first met Charles, Prince             forever. It was caused by a traffic collision

     of Wales, the Queen's eldest son and heir                   and because of people stalking her. After an
     apparent, when she was 16 in November 1977.                 immense public uproar, the Queen of the

     Something that I really admire about her is                 rest of the royal family realized how

     that she was kind-hearted and generous. She                 important it is to be accessible to the public.
     did many things for our society that other                      I look up to Princess Diana because of all

     people would not. She went to places like                   the things she did for us. She donated

     Africa and held sick children in her own arms.              money to charity and she never thought of
     Princess Diana contributed to charities,                    herself as a higher class person. Most

     totaling tens of millions of dollars.                       importantly, she believed in equality. I

         Even though she was royalty, she made the               admire how generous and outstanding
     royal family seem like the average people,                  Princess Diana was.

     meaning she was the same as commoners. She
     was always selfless. Even though she was

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