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(from the online Austin Statesman)
By Steve Hartsoe
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sunday, July 22, 2007
RALEIGH, N.C. — Tammy Faye Messner, who as Tammy Faye Bakker helped her husband, Jim, build a multimillion- dollar evangelism empire and then watched it collapse in disgrace, died Friday. She was 65.
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Hope I can dump my Maybelline stock early Monday morning.
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