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Over a Century of Achievements of a Bushwick Native: Ruth Gruber

At 101 years old, Ruth Gruber greeted us at The Living Gallery with perfectly placed hair, an outfit that looked like it came straight from Chanel's very own runway and electric pink eye shadow

Over a Century of Achievements of a Bushwick Native: Ruth Gruber
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Over a Century of Achievements of a Bushwick Native: Ruth Gruber

At 101 years old, Ruth Gruber greeted us at The Living Gallery with perfectly placed hair, an outfit that looked like it came straight from Chanel's very own runway and electric pink eye shadow

Over a Century of Achievements of a Bushwick Native: Ruth Gruber
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At 101 years old, Ruth Gruber greeted us at The Living Gallery with perfectly placed hair, an outfit that looked like it came straight from Chanel’s very own runway and electric pink eye shadow. At 25 I still can’t manage any of these things, so I’m already feeling her hustle. This Bushwick native has made the most of a century.

Born in 1911 in Brooklyn, New York, Gruber knew very young that she wanted to be a writer. And not only did this Bushwick dreamer do just that, at 20…

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