On Jan. 1, 1999, a little old lady left Pasadena for a trip to Washington. On foot.
That charismatic little old lady was Doris “Granny D” Haddock, from the small town of Dublin, N.H., as fierce a defender of democracy as any the Granite State ever produced.
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