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Five months after they first met, MacArthur returned to the United States; while he intended to bring her to
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Philippines. She did not use the ticket and never returned to the Philippines. In 1934, the 20-year-old (or 22/25-year-old) Cooper moved to the
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is sometimes wrongly attributed to her. "Ikaw Pala" had another actress named
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275:. MacArthur's marriage had ended a year earlier. Cooper became his mistress in Manila, a fact the 50-year-old MacArthur hid from his 80-year-old mother. In Manila, the teenaged Cooper lived in
212:. Her death certificate however lists her father as Isaac Cooper and her mother's name as Josephine. She was nicknamed "Dimples". As a teenager, she traveled Southeast Asia as a
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in 1960. She was 46 (or 48/51) years old. She was buried on July 5, 1960, in Holy Cross
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