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A fact from My Last Wonderful Days appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 19 July 2022 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the 1956 article "My Last Wonderful Days", about an Iowa woman accepting terminal cancer, funded an Iowa State University scholarship program?

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The result was: promoted by Theleekycauldron (talk) 09:52, 12 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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~~... that sales of the 1956 magazine article "My Last Wonderful Days", about an Iowa woman accepting dying from cancer, funded a journalism scholarship at Iowa State University?~~
- Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Book of Common Prayer (1845 illuminated version)

Created by SL93 (talk). Self-nominated at 22:41, 20 June 2022 (UTC).[reply]

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy: Article is sourced, neutral, and free of copyright problems
Adequate sourcing: Neutral: Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: Article looks good, and hook is cited and interesting. The hook is a little wordy, but meets length requirements. BuySomeApples (talk) 04:58, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

BuySomeApples Maybe this can be used as a shorter hook - ALT0a ... that the 1956 article "My Last Wonderful Days", about an Iowa woman accepting dying from cancer, funded an Iowa State University scholarship? SL93 (talk) 12:01, 25 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]

@SL93: I like that very much, thanks for shortening the hook! Approving ALT0a. BuySomeApples (talk) 21:28, 29 June 2022 (UTC)[reply]