She left the sinking Titanic in a sack, too small to be held during the chaos because she was only nine months old. Millvina Dean – who had been en route to Witchita with her parents – lived on until 2009, becoming the last surviving Titanic passenger and attracting plenty of attention in her later years. One day in 2008, she found herself staring into the eyes of David Gest, the former husband of Liza Minnelli, who arrived at her bedside to give her cash. She thought he looked like an alien. Her other encounters with people drawn by her fame were often just as strange. "Sometimes people get very emotional and burst into tears when I meet them," she told Wilson. "All I can say is 'there, there' and hope they'll be alright."
