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Farewell to a Species

Sad news this week as we learned that the last Munchkin has died.

They will be remembered as a proud people who weathered oppression and scandal. They were diverse. They were tough.

In a time when we humans focus on our relationship with Hobbits, and Oompa-Loompas publicly disgrace themselves, let us celebrate these kindly little folk, and the donut holes named after them.

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Posted by Jeff Patterson at Wednesday May 13, 2009 at 12:15 AM
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Mickey Carroll was not the last Munchkin.  There are still a few, including Meinhardt Raabe, who portrayed the Coronor and published the book <a href="http://www.sfsite.com/~silverag/raabe.html">Memories of a Munchkin</a> in 2005. Jerry Maren is also still alive (the center Lollypop Guild member) and, I believe, there are four other Munchkins still with us.

Posted by Steven on Wednesday May 13, 2009 at 9:11 AM

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