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HUNDREDS of couples donned sailor hats and nurse’s caps and smooched in Times Square on Saturday to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the end of World War II.

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A NURSE famously photographed being kissed by an American sailor in New York’s Times Square in 1945 to celebrate the end of World War Two has died at the age of 91, her family said.

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A 90-YEAR-OLD who says she’s the woman being kissed by a sailor in Times Square in one of World War II’s most famous photographs reunited in town with the Navy on Sunday — days before she is to serve as grand marshal of the city’s Veterans Day parade.

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