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Sale fails to bail out last Titanic survivor

The last living survivor of the Titanic earned only a small fraction of what auctioneers hoped to raise when she sold her final remaining mementos of the doomed ship to pay nursing home bills.

The 17 items belonging to 97-year-old Millvina Dean sold for about $8,000 on Saturday, according to auctioneer Alan Aldridge -- not enough to pay for two months at her nursing home.

Aldridge had earlier speculated the sale could raise up to $50,000 for her.

Read entire article at CNN