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‘Forever Marilyn’

Larger-than-life sculpture leaves the Windy City for sunny Palm Springs.

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"Forever Marilyn," the 26-foot-tall sculpture of the blonde Hollywood icon, is reassembled on Monday, May 14, 2012, at the corner of Palm Canyon Drive and Tahquitz Canyon Way in Palm Springs, Calif., the area slated to be a temporary park at the Desert Fashion Plaza site. It was previously on display in Chicago and is expected to remain in place for at least one year. (AP Photo/The Desert Sun, Marilyn Chung) RIVERSIDE PRESS-ENTERPRISE OUT; NO SALES; NO FOREIGN

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