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These items should have sunk with the Titanic. Instead, this Forsyth County woman owns them.
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Donna Laub displays antique items, including a pocketbook (left) and eyeglasses, once owned by Ida Straus, the wife of former Macy's department store owner Isidor Straus, on Tuesday, Oct. 29, 2019, in her Forsyth County home. The prominent couple died in the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. - photo by Brian Paglia
Donna Laub had her pocketbook and was ready to go to a wedding rehearsal dinner when someone stopped her. It was her husband’s cousin, a designer, and he did not approve of Laub’s Coach bag. A minute later, he handed her a replacement.