Shirley Temple, an optimistic icon who knew it was an illusion

Some things are best left to memory. When I think of Shirley Temple – the child star, not the adolescent actress or grown-up American diplomat – she is always petite, dimpled and smiling. Hearing of her death Monday night at the age of 85, it was hard to imagine her as anything else.

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