When Titanic passenger Ida Straus stepped into a lifeboat and realized her husband, Isidor Straus, was not following her, she made a decision that would impact generations to come. She stepped off the lifeboat and had her maid continue forward with a few of her jewels for safekeeping.
"We have lived together many years," Ida Straus was reported to have said. "Where you go I follow."
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