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Article: For You, Rusty: Area Consumer Succumbs (And What a Loss for the Neighborhood)
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- The Washington Post
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- July 8, 2007
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N ot a week after she had cemented her place in history by
chastising a neighbor on a matter of style, correcting a retail
clerk's grammar and delighting much of the block once again with the
story of how she had come to terms with moving all the way out to
the "East Jesus" section of Washington, Rusty Ruskin surprised
everyone but herself and left us.
Rusty lived a couple of doors down the block, and when we moved
in, she was described to us as the grande dame of Harrison Street.
"No," she corrected me when I first met her, "I'm just O-L-D, and
there's nothing worse to be."
But Rusty -- who died on the Fourth of July at the age of 86