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TIL of Beatrice Muller, a New Jersey widow who became a permanet resident of the Cunard ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2. When her husband retired the pair went on the ship's world cruise every year until he died on board in 1999. From 2000 she lived permanently on the ship until it was retired in 2008

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