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Darling, Grace
     
Darling, Grace
(1815-42) a British woman whose father was in charge of a lighthouse (=a tower with a flashing light that guides ships away from dangerous rocks), and who is famous for bravely rowing out to sea in a little boat during a storm to save nine people whose boat had sunk
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