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To: NOBO2012
Next to a photo of Angelou reads the text, "A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Those words may recall the title of Angelou's 1969 autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, but they were actually written by Joan Walsh Anglund, 89, in the 1967 book A Cup of Sun, according to the Washington Post.

"Had we known about this issue beforehand, we would have used one of [Angelou's] many other works ... the sentence held great meaning for her, and she is publicly identified with its popularity," Postal Service spokesperson Mark Saunders said in a statement reported by the Post.

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Fake, but accurate. Dan Rather and Brian Williams would be proud!

18 posted on 04/09/2015 8:51:17 AM PDT by hattend (Firearms and ammunition...the only growing industries under the Obama regime.)
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To: hattend

“Fake, but accurate. Dan Rather and Brian Williams would be proud!”

Liberals are absolutely ingenious in explaining the inexplicable.


21 posted on 04/09/2015 9:25:20 AM PDT by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is vsery late in the day".)
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